On Monday 27 February 2006 23:23, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Or do you have another way of avoiding unused resource allocation?
>
> Fix the [firmware | device load order] to allocate I/O ports first to
> the hardware that only supports IO port accesses.
How should the firmware know what hardware needs io ports and what hardware
doesn't? I don't think it will scale well to put long lists of PCI-IDs into
their firmware.
The driver is really the natural place to put such knowledge.
-Andi
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