- trying for a fit for a PnP configuration from a device
- soaking up resources from a configuration that were not allocated by
the driver
do not attempt to activate them. Only a device driver that is aware of
the nature of the resource and its suitability can be certain that
activating a resource, particularly a memory resource, is a safe thing
to do.
This was prompted by the discovery that many systems report all physical
memory through a PNP0c02 device; activating this resource maps all
physical memory into the kernel's virtual space, either blowing out the
kernel pagetable or in the worst case causing a panic in pmap_mapdev()
if the system has too much physical memory.
Authorised by: jkh
Reviewed by: dfr
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