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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:24:58 -0600 From: Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, David Engraf <david.engraf@...com.eu>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: ... > It wasn't just MIPS. IBM has a very popular blade system that has huge > issues with this, and I think there are some other IBM systems based on > the same BIOS that also do bad things if we don't grab the USB > controller away from the BIOS as soon as possible (nasty interrupt and > other messes happen...) PA-RISC has the same problem with USB. We can't reprogram the IOMMU windows at boot time unless the USB controller is forcefully stopped from doing DMA. "BIOS" leaves the USB DMA enabled to avoid loosing activity between polls for input. PA-RISC solves this by calling back into the "BIOS" (aka PDC) to cleanly stop all possible DMA devices. Other arches probably don't have this luxury. grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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