RE: PCI card bios accessibility

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:12, Tina Declerck wrote:
> On Thurs, 4 Mar 2004, ron minnich wrote:
> Ron,
>
> Thank you for the quick response
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote:
> > > Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address
>
> Register
> > > (BAR) to locate bios
> > >    on a PCI card and load it?  Specifically, this is regarding a 3ware
>
> RAID
> > > card.
> >
> > This is done now in user mode via emulation, for a number of reasons, and 
> > this emulation will move to linuxbios in a month or so.
>
> That's good to hear.  We'd like to do some testing in-house once this is
> available.

Why do you want to do this ? AFIAK, 3ware one of the few open source 
friendly vendors, the driver in the kernel can pretty much handle
anything.

Ollie