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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2014-05-19 14:00:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2014-05-19 14:00:22 +0200 |
| commit | 61b325ef52ec2603c0b5d4789ee40c31cf004ced (patch) | |
| tree | b8be14b19388ffe933648c01b721074f7d5a9827 /open_issues | |
| parent | 110c0cac8bfaaed37d64d917489c456f53a87c2c (diff) | |
| parent | 70305ba45224a1693d32d7829501758eb996346b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of braunbox:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/gnumach_PCI_access.mdwn | 18 |
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diff --git a/open_issues/gnumach_PCI_access.mdwn b/open_issues/gnumach_PCI_access.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dc099563 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/gnumach_PCI_access.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +Currently, GNU Mach requires the presence of the BIOS32 Service Directory for PCI access. +The other possible methods are direct access, which is somewhat dangerous and using mmconfig, the preferred default in Linux. +Direct access is already supported, but only used if BIOS32 is present for safety reasons. +The relevant Linux code could be adapted and reused. + + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] + |