[PATCH 0/3] [ARM] tegra: PCI Express support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 19 September 2010 18:40:40 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> which works fine - and yes, if you insert an ISA driver it probably will
> crash.  But then you can crash an x86 PC by using setserial to define
> a serial port at a wrong address.

Sure, if you build the kernel just for one machine, there is no reason
to include code that tries to access fixed I/O ports.

What I'm more worried about is that as we're moving to multi-platform
kernels you want to build for other hardware, e.g. one that has
a PC-style keyboard controller and one that has a funny mapping like that.

Normally, the driver for the keyboard controller should just access
the well-known port number and not find anything there, because PCI
devices are mapped above port 0x1000. What you get instead is a kernel
NULL pointer access.

	Arnd