Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 20:40:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: PCI: BIOS forgot to enable I/O |
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Martin Mares wrote: > | This occurs because Microsoft has convinced BIOS makers to modify > | their PCI device configuration from the previous rational standard, > | to one that works well only with Microsoft operating systems. Where > | previously the BIOS allocated resources for and enabled the PCI > | device by default, it now does so only for boot devices and audio > | devices. (Why are audio devices specifically an exception? Because > | MS-Windows can't handle the resource allocation for them!) > > > It turns out that my cards weren't detected with an all-ones station > > address (but I saw this behavior under 2.0.32)... but disabling the "PnP > > OS" setting in BIOS did the trick. > > Grrr. They should be shot. We will probably have to make Linux automatically > enable I/O and memory accesses in such cases instead of just reporting them, but
We need that for other architectures anyway.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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