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- Theo Markettos writes:
- > ... If there's, say, a bad connection with the podule bus, you might be
- > able to read the ROM without problems, then find that you couldn't access the
- > driver chip. If this was in the middle of some critical data transfer the
- > driver might hang waiting for a ready signal that never came because the chip
- > wasn't being read and rubbish was returned instead.
-
- I already do this with some of the drivers - ether3 checks whether the chip is
- on an 8bit or 16bit bus, and then checks the on-board RAM (as does the ether1).
-
- > Apologies if this already happens for most drivers - I'm speaking as a RISC
- > OS and hardware person with a users knowledge of Unix, not a Unix hacker.
-
- ;) Well, until I started ARMLinux, I wasn't a unix hacker ;)
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