Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:17:35 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: jonsmirl@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Standard driver call to enable/disable PCI ROM
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:52:46 +0100
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

>                 new |= res->flags & PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
>                 reg = dev->rom_base_reg;

A word of caution, please do not enable PCI ROMs lightly.

There are many devices which stop responding to MEM and IO
space once their ROM is enabled, Qlogic-ISP chips are one
such device and there are several others.
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