On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:16:42PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > The pci sizing code now catches broken hardware that returns invalid size > information, particularly hardware that has a hardwired address value and > hence will not return a valid size. Example, the Acer m7229 IDE in the ALI > 1535 southbridge, the BAR reads as 0x1f1 and the size reads as 0x1f1. > > I have tested this code and it causes no problems, but this is a heads up > for everyone.
Are you sure that it's really broken? You can only assume that BAR exists if the "header type" field is 00.
