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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2004 14:40:38 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci pci.c
Message-ID:  <20040521134038.GE90068@empiric.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <40ADBC15.6040004@freebsd.org>
References:  <200405210636.i4L6aadV059034@repoman.freebsd.org> <40ADAF07.2070909@freebsd.org> <20040521.020412.118756775.imp@bsdimp.com> <40ADBC15.6040004@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:21:41AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Well, the 8.3.3 paragraph only specifically mentions the command
> register and the BARs.  I'm just worried that by touching stuff outside
> of this range that you open up the risk of tickling latent buggy
> silicon.  Exception cases like the ATA hardware doing magic things with
> the progif register should be left up to the ATA driver.  It's exactly
> those kinds of bent-rules that makes me nervous =-)

Maybe this behaviour could be enabled or disabled with an instance variable?
I can think of one example of hardware which might need this. I owned an
IBM ThinkPad T22 with an xl(4) NIC for about a year, and one of the things
which annoyed me about suspend/resume was the tendency for it to lose its
PCI configuration.

Regards,
BMS



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