Subject: Re: PCI enumeration (was: ne2000 PCMCIA not working as PCMCIA either.)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 10/18/1999 12:24:01
>...furthermore, it allows a platform to leave out that step if the platform
>has Firmware That Doesn't Suck.
Yep, sure. But doing fixups for similar busted firmware/hardware (a`
la the linux x86 pcmcica/cardbus interrupt tickle) may have to go into
MI code, even if Sane Hardware doesn't need it. Or at least the hooks
for it do.