Are PCI bridges automatically configured?

Kate Feng feng1 at bnl.gov
Fri Feb 25 20:58:50 UTC 2005


Peter Dufault wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Kate Feng wrote:
>
> > You did it.
> > Any PMC device should have firmware to follow the PCI
> > standard to respond to a PCI  bridge search.  You just enabled
> > the search by increasing the limit of two.
> >
> >
> I don't understand - the device itself can't have the firmware, right?
> It doesn't know what CPU is doing the searching, and so it can't have
> what I'd usually consider "firmware".  The device can have the info
> encoded on it for someone to do the searching, and so I'm wondering who
> did the searching to find the Acromag PMC board.
>

BSP_pciFindDevice().

Regards,
Kate





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