Re: [PATCH 7/11] lpfc 8.1.1 : Add support for more members of the Light Pulse 11xxx (4Gb) family

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:08:46PM -0500, James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Please note: there will be 2 other areas where we will still be accessing
> config space:
>   - We need the bar value, as the hardware sees it, to program a base
>     address it can decode to keep ring accesses on-chip. The current pci
>     infrastructure doesn't provide this. (we've talked about this on this
>     reflector before).

sym2 has the same need for pretty much the same reason.  It has a
private function called pci_get_base_address() right now.  I believe the
correct thing to do (but haven't got round to trying it yet) is to call
pcibios_resource_to_bus().

>   - If we reset the card, there were hardware-isms that may erroneously
>     drive perr/serr. So, we need to temporarily turn them off while we
>     reset. (I believe we went through this as well on this list early on).

That's certainly a reasonable need.
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