[OLPC-devel] Re: OLPC/LinuxBIOS: PCI configuration or not?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri May 19 18:55:01 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 18:30 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> For the sake of driver compatibility I would suggest that PCI emulation
> is kept for now - the sound and framebuffer drivers use the PCI
> interface.

Fixing that really shouldn't be hard. Just make them use a
platform_device instead (or 'as well'). 

You'll want that for EHCI too but that should also be fairly trivial.

> Dropping PCI support from the kernel is certainly good from a memory
> footprint point of view, we might want to do that later during the game.

Absolutely.

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dwmw2




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