Re: PATCH 2.5.x disable BAR when sizing

Ivan Kokshaysky (ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru)
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:53:11 +0300

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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:42:33AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> If certain bridges cause
> problems, perhaps those need to be special-cased?

Couple of days ago I mindlessly suggested exactly that, but I
take it back.
Not only *all* classes of bridges would be special-cased:
turning off IO and MEM in the PCI command register disables the legacy I/O
ports and memory on some VGAs. Guess what happens if someone decides
to printk in the meantime.

Ivan.
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