Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:38:48 -0700 (PDT)


Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> Well, those resource conflicts shouldn't be there in the first place. They
> should be handled by the OS.

I agree, completely.

But this doesn't solve the issue of reserving resources inside the
X server. Ie. making sure one driver doesn't take the register area
another driver is using.

You still need to get the controller number into the resources to do
that properly.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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