Re: [NILO-discuss] Zen and the art of running in real mode

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

> Dumb question for Michael: do you happen to know of any cards which are
> known to only have memory apertures?  I'd like to disect their factory
> PXE stacks and see how they solve the whole dilemma.  That probably sets
> the _de_facto_ standard for what happens next.

Only one which isn't yet in production.  The I/O BAR is in the current 
generation of the product in case it was needed to support PXE.  Since 
they used Etherboot for the PXE stack, (and consequently weren't 
restricted to portio, and could get away with essentially reusing the 
Linux driver), the I/O bar is completely unused and will be removed in the 
next rev.

Michael