On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:57:49AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:20 am Gary Hade wrote: > > > Correct, not a perfect solution but better than we have right now. > > > > ...but don't let this comment make you think that I am not in > > favor of something like you are suggesting. I am interested > > in getting the 'pci=norom' change into mainline quickly but it > > is obviously less than ideal for the long term. > > > > Jesse, any idea how many different devices absolutely need > > memory allocated for their expansion ROMs? > > Unless there's a ton of demand, I'd rather go with the norom option, but > either way, I'd like to push the fix early in the 2.6.27 cycle rather than > trying to get it into 2.6.26 at the last minute... This is fine. I would also like to see the pci=norom option added as-is with the thought that we may improve later by either modifying pci=norom to exclude devices that need memory mapped to their expansion ROMs or by adding another option (pci=minrom ?) that would do the same thing. > > So assuming you're ok with your last patch, I'll stuff it into linux-next. Works for me. Thanks. Gary -- Gary Hade System x Enablement IBM Linux Technology Center 503-578-4503 IBM T/L: 775-4503 garyhade@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
