ADLO committed (NO FUNCTION TABLES!)

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Nov 26 14:34:01 CET 2002


On 26 Nov 2002, Christer Weinigel wrote:

> "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > One thing we should keep in mind for the shadow ram thing: 
> > Just about every chipset I have seen has shadow ram registers that can 
> > correctly be set with the following info:
> > 
> > VendorID, DeviceID, Function, register, AndMask, OrMask.
> > 
> > This rapidly leads to a simple table something like this:
> > 
> > struct shadowram{ 
> > 	int physaddress;
> > 	u16 VendorID, DeviceID, Function;
> > 	u8 register;
> > 	u8 AndMask, OrMask}; 
> > 
> > struct shadowram s[] = {
> > 	{0xf0000, 0xabcd, 0x1234, 0x15, 0x40, 0xf8, 0x1},
> > 	{ etc.}
> > 	{0,}
> > };
> > 
> > I haven't stumbled across a chipset yet for which this would not
> > work.
> 
> Except for the MediaGX/Geode which has this in the GX_BASE memory
> region which is not a pci configuration register. :-(

well, looks like my beautiful theory just got killed by a brutal gang of 
facts. Now it's somebody else's turn to figure this out :-)

ron




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