Re: [coreboot] [RFC] kill unwanted_vpci, use "hidden" property instead

[ron minnich]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Why would you not hide a non-enabled device?

in some cases we actually have to allocate the BARs and so on and
leave it disabled -- we don't know if the OS wants it, but if the OS
wants it, it has to work. This is one of the less intuitive bits of
the device bringup process.
> In Linux it is, isn't it? I thought to remember it won't show devices
> with no BARs set up..

yep, we actually have to set up the BARs even if it is not enabled in
the tree. We can't leave the OS in a situtation where it can't use the
device.

thanks

ron