[LinuxBIOS] Question about PCI Config Space byte rd/wr in HT
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 13 21:19:51 CET 2007
[Don't reply to an unrelated post, please start a new
thread instead].
> If software tries to do a byte rd/wr access to PCI config access, say
> in
> linux or BIOS, how would it show up on the HT bus?
As a byte access to config space -- what else?
Read the HT specification (from hypertransport.org)
if you need to know the details.
> I'm assuming that config space access is initiated through the
> southbridge.
It's done on the CPU chip (it detects accesses to
legacy I/O address 0xfc8/0xcfc).
> Anyone know if an HT device will ever have to expect byte access to its
> config space?
Yes, some people know. Yes, they have to expect (and
allow) byte accesses.
Segher
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