RE: ATI rage xl.init

[ron minnich]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Sometimes, if you not enable PCI master, the device can not work properly in
> Linux.
>
> But Eric/Ron didn't enable that in PCI main loop, because some devices don't
> need that.

because it is a bad idea to do this. The  Linux driver should do this, not 
LinuxBIOS. We have always resisted this because it can cause real trouble 
if the device decides to do an I/O.

ron

ATI rage xl.init

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich  [040426 02:09]:
> because it is a bad idea to do this. The  Linux driver should do this, not 
> LinuxBIOS. We have always resisted this because it can cause real trouble 
> if the device decides to do an I/O.

Then doing this for a small set of devices where it is tested and
doesn't hurt seems ok, until there's a set of kernel fixes available.

The way LinuxBIOS handles pci "initialization drivers" seems like the
cleanest solution. It's still kind of a workaround, but at least it is
not hacked somewhere into the code, but added in as a module

Stefan