[PATCH] pc386 BSP: initialization of PCI bus

Karel Gardas kgardas at objectsecurity.com
Fri Aug 19 13:46:49 UTC 2005


Keith Robertson wrote:

> Karel Gardas wrote:
> > IIRC Gregory Melke recommended to initializa PCI bus in
> bsp_startup
> > function of pc386 BSP early this year. Attach patch tries to
> implement
> > this. It is tested on two x86 systems one with 3C905C-TX and
> other with
> > Intel's Ethernet NICs.
> >
> > Since till now, initialization of PCI bus was done in appropriate
> device
> > driver on pc386 BSP, I hope it is right to place its
> initialization
> > after all needed initializations of IRQ and exceptions management
> code.
> Karel,
>
> Do you happen to know if this patch causes any problems on pc386
> bsps
> without a PCI bus?  Personally, I'm particularly interested in qemu
> with
> the -isa (aka no pci) option.   However, there's likely(?) other
> setups
> without PCI.

Keith,

true! I have not tested the code on non-PCI system due to missing hardware 
and completely forgotten the option to use qemu -isa for testing. Anyway, 
I would expect code to only print warning message about missing PCI BIOS 
and otherwise not harm at all, thought I will not be able to test it on 
qemu in the near future. If you will do testing yourself, please keep us 
posted!

Thanks,
Karel
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Karel Gardas                  kgardas at objectsecurity.com
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