Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] PC-9800 architecture (CORE only)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 05:45:08 EST


On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:09, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> For system resources you simply could allocate 0x00-0x2f and be done
> without the sparse flag, but if there are any other devices that have
> overlapping resources, which need separate drivers (IDE, sound, network,
> ...) then the sparse ioresource flag is indeed needed. Is it so?

Possibly although this is not an entirely unique problem. The other way
would be (post 2.6) to add a mask. That will also let us properly handle
the PCI/ISA partial decode for example.

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