Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom -- Current Status

[Darmawan Salihun]

Roman Kononov wrote:
> On 08/14/2007 02:47 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > The CF8/CFC sequence can preserve CF8 port value. What other
> > > hardware state would be changed?
> >
> > The bits that are changed in the device config space.
>
> I cannot imagine why the OS would care about a couple of configuration bits 
> in the SB.
> > Yup. Are you saying it is simply not possible to access PCI config
> > space of a device from a device driver unless the driver is in fact
> > part of the driver stack associated with that device?
>
> Yes.

Yeah, this is an already known issue from the beginning ;-).
Technically, we don't have the PDO of the southbridge chip, therefore we
cannot access it in anyway as documented by Micro$oft.

Regards,
Darmawan Salihun