[Xorg-driver-geode] GeodeLX freeze with General Software BIOS saga continues

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [080111 09:02]:
> > Can someone tell me why we don't access 0xCF8-0xCFF directly but emulate
> > them by a read them from PCI memory?
> 
> The PCI configuration interface is managed by the OS. It uses 0xCF8-0xCFF
> and also newer interfaces internally. If you scribble on those ports
> directly as well they may clash and that can do really evilly bad 'where
> did my data go' kind of things.

Thank makes sense.

> The emulation logic should dig the correct information out of the /proc
> interface (or similar for other platforms). The full information is there
> so it may be a bug in the logic for parsing that.

Thanks Alan.

I guess I'll peal off more layers and see why I get the unexpected
value back.

-Bart

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