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

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:18:39AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> >>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.
> >
> 
> 
> right, but there are subtleties here -- it's not as easy as replacing 
> pci support with a couple of MSR writes, as the AMD guys have explained 
> to me.

Why not?