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Subject: Re: [patch] PCI Cleanup
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:57, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> > to do conf2 accesses, and nothing else. So it duplicates its own conf2 
> > functions right now, because it has no way to hook into the generic ones).
> 
> OK, that IDE thing smacks of unmitigated evil to me, but if things are relying 
> on it, we shouldn't change it.

It wants to force its own conf1/conf2 over the BIOS even if BIOS is
preferred because some BIOSes dont honour the size requested and the
hardware has bugs.

That to me says there may well be cleaner approaches.

Alan

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