Are PCI bridges automatically configured?

Peter Dufault dufault at hda.com
Sun Feb 27 13:02:12 UTC 2005


On Feb 26, 2005, at 6:06 PM, chris at chriscaudle.org wrote:

>> I don't need any DEC 21150 specific code anywhere?
>
> You shouldn't, PCI bridges are very standardized, so unless something 
> is pretty broken, if the code understands bridges at all, everything 
> should just work.
>

Thanks for the summary.  Given that, the code that enables the bridges 
in "pci.c" should enable any bridge it sees, maybe with a warning, 
instead of only those that it explicitly knows the vendor and device 
ID.

Peter

Peter Dufault
HD Associates, Inc.




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