From: Wolf Shaman <wlfshmn@failure.ml.org>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:12:24 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Resource registration. [back from holidays]

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Emmanuel Marty wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Wolf Shaman wrote:
> 
> > What resources the drivers use are presently registered with the OS and
> > through what interface?
> 
> In theory, the driver registers the mmio and i/o ports it uses. It is the
> mem_check_region() and io_check_region() defined by include/kgi/system.h
> 
> Linux currently has no arbitration for memory regions, so mem_check_region()
> doesn't do anything for this kernel.
> 
Ok, and IRQ resources? Quite a few of the chipsets I have at hand use an
IRQ for vretrace...

> Effectively, it should be done in the chipset driver, at init time.
> 
> --
> Emmanuel
> 
>