[LinuxBIOS] PCI: Left over static devices. Check your Config.lb

Marc Jones marc.jones at amd.com
Mon Dec 17 23:10:52 CET 2007



Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 10.12.2007 21:56, Marc Jones wrote:
>> A devices needs to be listed in the config.lb if it requires more setup 
>> than standard PCI initialization (resource allocation). Usually that 
>> means the CPU, northbridge, southbridge, and SIO. Those devices are 
>> usually needed to indicate the system bus structure(pci_domain) as well 
>> as do any system specific initialization on those devices.
>>
>> During the LinuxBIOS PCI/system scan process, if a device in config.lb 
>> is found, the functions to do customized initialization are called via 
>> the device_operations and the chip_operations structs.
>>   
> 
> Can you add that explanation to the wiki?
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> 

What page would this go on? I don't see an appropriate place.

Marc



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