PCI lookup issue: 3c905C-TX not found by RTEMS.

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

Karel Gardas writes:
 > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
 > 
 > >  > you are probably right, only one thing makes me wonder, my BIOS prints
 > >  > listing of PCI devices together with assigned IRQ before booting OS.
 > >  >
 > >
 > > Thats a good sign.  What I'd try to do now is use the pci read/write
 > > functions you see in pcibios.c to probe the bus, retrieving the device
 > > type, interrupt vector and base addresses.  For pci bridges, you can
 > > look beyond them for other devices on the bus.
 > >
 > > Your approach to use Linux/bsd to get bus & slot numbers is good, you
 > > will be able to confirm what your tests show.
 > >
 > > To do this, you will need to understand the pci bus a little better;
 > > how the address ranges and configuration transactions work.  If you
 > > look at the pci support in the motorola_shared bsp, you'll see the
 > > routine it uses to compute interrupt vectors, which should be of some
 > > help as far as how config registers are retrieved and updated.  The
 > > motorola_shared bootstrap code handles configuring ranges which might
 > > also be helpful.
 > 
 > Perhaps I can at least give it a try. But anyway, short question: is
 > 4-6-branch and trunk very similar w.r.t. pc386 pci or should I do this
 > hacking directly on trunk? (so far I've hacked rtems-4-6-branch).

As far as I know the pc386 pci support has been stable for some time,
so I think you could do it either way.  I imagine it might be better
to work off the cvs head in case you come up with enhancements that
you'd like to commit.

Gregm