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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:29:30 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] PC-9800 architecture (CORE only)
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:45:08AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:09, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > For system resources you simply could allocate 0x00-0x2f and be done
> > without the sparse flag, but if there are any other devices that have
> > overlapping resources, which need separate drivers (IDE, sound, network,
> > ...) then the sparse ioresource flag is indeed needed. Is it so?
> 
> Possibly although this is not an entirely unique problem. The other way
> would be (post 2.6) to add a mask. That will also let us properly handle
> the PCI/ISA partial decode for example.

Indeed.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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