[Prism54-devel] 2.6.7 patches

[Margit Schubert-While]

At 11:06 04.07.2004 -0400, Luis scribeth:
>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:12:46PM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> > Aurelien scribeth:
> > > I've checked the changes in CVS and I disagree with the patch #5
> > (removing the writes to some pci registers).
> > > Those changes will have huge consequences on card/driver stability. It
> > should have been debated here before.
> > > Moreover windows drivers do those writes, and adding them solved a lot
> > of stability issues in prism54.
> >
> > 1) Well, many months ago, it was talked about
>
>I do not remember these register writes being disabled being discussed
>here. This needs further investigation. I believe more people are going
>to be affected by removing it than adding it, not sure though. We should
>figure out exactly what is meant by "legacy" devices and see if we can
>detect this on the code itself.

There are no Prism GT "legacy" devices. All are PCI (or, if you like,
PnP) conformant.
The default values are programmed in there for a reason :-)
And the original Intersil code didn't do it either.

Margit