[driver-discuss] Device Drivers Best Practice

[Edward Shu]

Garrett D'Amore :
> 3.  Independence from firmware initialization.  Device drivers should not
>     depend on firmware to initialize devices.  While certain portions of
>     the device may be initialized by OS or BIOS (assignment of PCI
>     addresses to BARs for example), device drivers should not rely on
>     firmware to perform any device specific initialization.
>
>
>   
    In fact, it  is really unfortunately that some of our device drivers 
must depend on the firmware initialization, like
graphics,  disk drivers because we can not get help from vendors.   
Even,  some firmware must be downloaded into
system memory.
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Best Regards,
Ming.

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-Edward Shu 				  	
-Solaris x86 Engineering, Sun Microsystems
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