[coreboot] [PATCH] Drop drivers/pci/onboard

[Myles Watson]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
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>>>  Myles Watson wrote:
>>> > > > PCI onboard was only used for ROM images at fixed offsets in
>>> > > > flash.  Now that we have CBFS, there is no use for it.
>>>
>>>  But what about the PCI device ids which are being taken out of the
>>> device tree? Are they guaranteed to be discovered through automatic
>>> scanning?
>>>
>> Yes.  If the couldn't be probed, they would have been disabled even though
>> they were found in the tree.
>>
>> I wonder a little about the on_mainboard flag.  It's possible that some of
>> these devices would have had that flag set if they didn't need to have a
>> ROM.  I don't know of a good way to automatically figure out which devices
>> that would apply to.
>>
> The rest of the story :)
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> The on_mainboard flag gets used to set subsystem IDs and
> CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA_ONBOARD_AT_FIRST
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I put all the devices back in the tree.  So they show up in static.c like
they should, they just don't have the onboard driver any more.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Myles
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