Smart. I'll fix the driver rather than doing the Award work around. Ollie, thanks for checking the spec.
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:54, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
we don't turn on bus master as that could be very hazardous to your health -- imagine an unitialized PCI device coming up with bus master enabled. It is at that point allowed to do DMA cycles to RAM without having been initialized by a driver. OUCH.
In my opinion if the driver is not turning on bus master it is a buggy driver. If the device comes up with bus master enabled it is a buggy device. Ollie has pointed this out too. There's a lot of buggy PCI hardware in existence.
I think the Award BIOS is buggy, possibly intentionally, to deal with buggy drivers (there are lots of BIOS patches that are in there, I am told, to fix buggy device drivers in Windows).
I would recommend fixing the 802.11 driver, rather than modifying LinuxBIOS. But let's see what other people say.
ron