Re: [PATCH] Change PCI host bridge setup/resources

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:20:31PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> >    This is certainly *not* a PCI or [E]ISA resource. It's decoded by the 
> > *host* bridge.
> 
> so ? It's an IO address no device should use, because it won't work.
> Therefore mark it busy. That's all the code does.

Yep, it's transparently decoded ISA (which is behind PCI) to control the PCI
bus. Just traditional PC legacy hacks :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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