Re: [PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?=]

You missed the newer statements about every piece of hardware being
assumed to be hot-pluggable and all the hardware being under full control
by CPU.

You also missed the well known point that only device drivers are broken
under Linux and that all the generic O/S code is just perfect. :-)

  Gérard.

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Alan,
> > 
> >  Another driver not doing pci_enable_device() early enough.
> > 
> > Dave.
> > 
> 
> A PCI device does not and should not be enabled to probe for resources!
> It is only devices that have BIOS that require the device to be enabled
> for memory I/O prior to downloading the BIOS into RAM. The BARs are
> read/writable (and are required to be), even when the Mem/I/O bits
> in the cmd/status register are clear.
> 
> This is a required condition!  You certainly don't want to write all
> ones to a decode (to find the resource length) of a live, on-line chip!
> If the chip hickups (think network chips connected to networks, on a
> warm-boot), you will trash lots of stuff in memory.
> 
> It looks as though you are "fixing" drivers that are not broken and,
> in fact, are trying to do the right thing. Maybe the PCI code in the
> kernel is preventing access to resources unless the device has been
> enabled??? If so, it's broken and should be fixed, instead of all
> the drivers.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> 
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
> 
> "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
> course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
> obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
> 
> 
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