[coreboot] patch: unshare pci operations

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue Oct 21 16:04:52 CEST 2008


On 21.10.2008 15:59, ron minnich wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   
>>> P.S. I'd just say that calling console functions from during the ROM
>>> mapping is illegal. It's our code, we get to specify what is run.
>>>       
>> That's the way I'm running now.  The problem would be if someone in the
>> future wanted to debug why their option ROM was failing, and added a few
>> printks.
>>     
>
> I think it would be a mistake to make coreboot capabilities
> conditionally available. Somebody, somewhere, some day will hate us if
> we do that.
>   

Yes, that's why I hope the bootblock below 1M idea works out. Otherwise
I'm going to implement a command filter which takes care of the issue
once and for all.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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