[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Flashrom: sis630 simplification

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:11 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:41:18PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:56:32PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:49:46PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > > > attached patch changes out/in combinations to pci_read/write_byte in
> > > > sis630 chipset enable.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > There is abstraction available - so it should be used everywhere.
> 
> Ah, yes. I missed the fact that those functions do the same as the
> replaced code.
> 
> 
> > > Did you test the patch on hardware?
> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:59:39AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > > I don't think this should be done unless someone can test.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree with the patch - I want the change, but I also agree it would
> > be nice to have it tested.
> > 
> > We could argue that we decided to go through with the patch in order
> > to improve the code and until someone has a problem with the code not
> > working there is no real problem.
> 
> I'm not too eager to find out the hard way. This is low-level
> enough that I think there _might_ be unintended/unnoticed consequences.
> 
> Anybody with such a chipset willing to test the patch?
> 

It was too long ago for me to remember why I was doing something like 
that. My guess is that the pci_dev passed to the function is the 
northbridge but you have to program the southbridge or the LPC or it
was not linked with pci_util then.

Ollie