From: Vladimir '$B&U(B-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:52:01 +0100
> It already works on MIPS and AFAICT only thing it needs to work is PCI.
> Do you mean that accessing PCI on sparc is a lot of work?
Even just calculating the register addresses is a lot of work.
You can't
David Miller wrote:
> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:05:24 +0100
>
>
>> Committed.
>> David Miller wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to surmise other ways to do this more cleanly, such as
>>> resolving the path and looking for some device property inside of the
From: Vladimir '$B&U(B-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:05:24 +0100
> Committed.
> David Miller wrote:
>> I tried to surmise other ways to do this more cleanly, such as
>> resolving the path and looking for some device property inside of the
>> resulting node, but there simpl
Committed.
David Miller wrote:
> I tried to surmise other ways to do this more cleanly, such as
> resolving the path and looking for some device property inside of the
> resulting node, but there simply isn't anything we can check for.
>
>
If you find a cleaner way we can commit it later. I was
We skip CDROMs in the block device iterator because they simply can't
be openned safely unless we absolutely know there is a CDROM drive
there and there is in fact a disc in the drive.
Openning it blindly results in either a 10 second hang during the open
call, or even worse a crash in OpenFirmwa
