Re: pci_restore_state

[Paul Mackerras]

Andrew Morton writes:

> On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:13:30 -0400
> Ryan Lortie <desrt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If I reverse the for loop to start from 15 and count down to 0, then the
> > majority of the configuration space is filled in _before_ the command
> > word is modified.  No crash.
> 
> We have a patch pending which will do that.
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-03-pci/pci-reverse-pci-config-space-restore-order.patch

We really shouldn't be writing to the BIST register, at least...

Also, I don't quite see the point of writing to the read-only
registers such as vendor and device ID.

Paul.
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