Subject: importing PCI-BIOS patches?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/14/1999 13:58:16
Is anyone planning to import Uchiyama-san's PCI-BIOS patches from
   ftp://f77.nop.or.jp/users/uch/PCI/PCIBIOS-NetBSD-*
anytime soon? 

The discussion about PCI bridges (here and tech-kern late October)
concluted that we need port-specific code to configure PCI busses and
bridges. The cardbus patches were mentioned as the solution for
x86. They're reported to work well and, for some machines that don't
have a `PnP OS = no' BIOS option, to make the difference between
NetBSD installing/working and not working.

Does the code need more review, or what? Most of the FreeBSD-vs.-NetBSD
differences inside function bodies can be eliminated by defining a
macro to assing a `resource map', and a judicious typedef.  Other than
that, and formatting differences, is there any reason not to import
these patches?  Progress on the Cardbus patches kinda depends on them....