[coreboot] patch: resource map proposal.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Aug 4 22:54:31 CEST 2008


ron minnich wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> The obvious question: Do we need to use device_t as an input to that
>> function at all? Why don't we instead use simple pci functions taking a u32
>> as an input? We're a bios, after all, not an OS. Are we?
>>     
>
> That's a fine question. The convention could be that we call those
> functions as follows:
> blahblah(device->bus, device->devfn, etc. etc. )
>   

pci_read_config32(PCI_DEV(0,0x1f,0), reg); ?

Maps to about 5 assembler instructions.
> works for me. But let's revisit it later.
>
> I am fine with overloading but only in languages that really allow it ;-)
Overloading? I'm talking about simplifying, not inventing an OS ;-)


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