ATI rage xl.init

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Sun Apr 25 18:55:01 CEST 2004


On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> 8.
> 
> 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




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