[LinuxBIOS] PCI max buses patch

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Sun Apr 23 21:26:29 CEST 2006


Richard Smith wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
>>Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The scanning process takes forever in the romcc part. So as long as we
>>>want to claim fast boot we simply _have_ to believe that we dont have to
>>>look at high busses there.
>>
>>
>>ok, that makes sense to me. I just wanted to make sure I understood it.
>>I'm fine with that patch.
> 
> 
> Its going to break any board that depends on pci_locate_device() to
> find things on a high bus.  Is that going to be ok?
> 
> A grep for pci_locate_device() shows that its used in a lot of places.

right, but unless I missed the point, that is configurable?

thanks

ron




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