Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:52:03 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Hot PCI bus plugging |
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Hello,
> Yes you have a very good point there, that I mentioned in a private > e-mail. The BIOS does that at bootup, so we would have to assume > control of that ourselves.
Yes.
> That wouldn't be too difficult, but would > add some housekeeping to the PCI layers -- mainly allocating and keeping > track of IRQs and base addresses/ranges.
For I/O and memory ranges, we already do that in 2.3.
> (Dang those broken cards that don't share.. Why doesn't everybody just read > the friggin' PCI spec??? :) )
Do you know of any such PCI card?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ "For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."
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