[coreboot] HP DL145G3 - BuildBot

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Mon May 18 15:32:00 CEST 2009



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pattrick Hueper [mailto:phueper at hueper.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 2:42 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: samuel; coreboot at coreboot.org; Kevin O'Connor
> Subject: Re: HP DL145G3 - BuildBot
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Pattrick,
> > I think that YABEL should print a warning and return 0xFFFF for config
> > reads to non-existant devices.
> >
> 
> i will come up with patches... however i am not sure wether that is
> the right thing to do... i have seen roms that use the ffff to
> continue and very strange results occur...
I think it should still have a very loud warning, but I'm not sure what the
alternative is.  It seems like any other value has the potential for more
problems.

> There is the option CONFIG_YABEL_PCI_ACCESS_OTHER_DEVICES to allow
> access to other PCI devices... maybe i should make that the default,
> since some ROMs seem to rely on it?
Maybe for read, but not for write?  

Thanks,
Myles





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