Allocateing resouces for PCI expansion roms... (was 440bx VGA probs)
Richard Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
Thu Sep 9 09:14:01 CEST 2004
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>>ADLO should really look at the pci options roms and do the appropriate
>>thing, so if LinuxBIOS can reserve a hole in the memory address space
>>to map the ROM into, ADLO should do the rest.
>
> This would require to actively change the PAM registers during ADLO
> still, would it not?
> With our current abstraction, this is something that should clearly go
> to LinuxBIOS though since it is chipset specific.
>
> Ok, we don't want callbacks, but could we not store the information on
> how to cope with PAM registers in the LinuxBIOS table, probably as some
> array of PCI addresses to read+[&|]+write to? This would allow to keep
> ADLO completely generic.
Are you guys discussing how this needs to be done for V2? Because for
V1 this is really starting to sound complicated which was not what I was
attemping to suggest.
The only thing that BOCHS needs is a copy of the ROM extension in the
legacy range. It already scans the range and runs any extension it
finds. ADLO currently does this copy because LB dosen't.
All I need is an address assigned to the ROM that won't conflict.
Then a few changes in the chipsets northbridge code will make this work
for on card expansion ROMS. Simple and fairly non-intrusive. The only
intrusive change is the assignment of a mem-address to the ROM.
Why make it more complex than that? Am I just missing something here?
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