reads. This is necessary because of newer AlphaStation firmware doing
the Wrong Thing with target aborts behind PCI-PCI bridges, much like they
do the Wrong Thing with master aborts. Reported by Matthias Drochner.
PCI master aborts as eb164 firmware, so use the same workaround mechanism
on all system types (clear error register's master abort bit, and check
it after accessing configuration space), not just eb164's.
This also fixes a bug on eb164's - when making the Alpha port compile
again, I made an error that caused this to not be used on eb164 systems,
either. Thanks to Matt Jacob for pointing out this goof.
don't expect/provide pci_decompose_tag to be a MI, public function. It
wasn't intended to be to begin with, and uses of it (e.g. the one in the
'de' driver) are quite likely to be incorrect.
This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)
don't machine check when a PCI Master Abort is signalled. This can
happen, for instance, when configuration space for a device that isn't
present is examined. When this is detected, act like we normally would
when machine checks are posted while examining nonexistant devices.
Support for AXPpci CPUs,
Support for AlphaStation 600 CPUs,
new boot block structure, which requires an 'installboot'
program and works a lot like the NetBSD/sparc boot blocks.
thorpej