Resource Allocation for Option Rom

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu May 27 14:54:01 CEST 2004


Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> It seems that the resource allocation for option rom
> is not implemented in LinuxBIOS, is it ? Is there one
> have any idea how to add this ?

We could probably reserve a hole for this purpose, which
is a good idea except for bridges. 

Be very careful here.  The PCI spec allows the option rom BAR
to be mutually exclusive with the other BARS so in general
they both can not be enabled.

Eric



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