Resource Allocation for Option Rom

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Wed Jun 23 13:20:01 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:24, Richard Smith wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 14:16, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >>>We could probably reserve a hole for this purpose, which
> >>>is a good idea except for bridges. 
> >>>
> >>
> >>Can we just treat it as MEM resource and reuse the MEM resource
> >>allocation code ?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes that would be the easy way to reserver an area for the rom
> > to be enabled.  If the BAR is not large this should not be a problem.
> >  
> 
> Did this happen?  I'm trying to get a plug in PCI video card up with 
> ADLO and I need the option rom to be enabled.  I can do it direcly in my 
> mainboard code for a hack but If there was anything to test I though I 
> would try.
> 
> 

How is testbios doing on your side ?

Ollie





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