Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:22:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:22:08 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:56002 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:22:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] PC-9800 architecture (CORE only) From: Alan Cox To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Osamu Tomita , Andrey Panin , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20021024110927.A2733@ucw.cz> References: <20021022065028.GA304@pazke.ipt> <3DB5706A.9D3915F0@cinet.co.jp> <1035374538.4033.40.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3DB6A212.74D592D0@cinet.co.jp> <20021024110927.A2733@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 24 Oct 2002 11:45:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1035456308.8675.36.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 16 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/