PCI card bios accessibility

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Fri Mar 5 12:02:01 CET 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:12, Tina Declerck wrote:
> On Thurs, 4 Mar 2004, ron minnich wrote:
> Ron,
> 
> Thank you for the quick response
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote:
> >> - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address
> Register
> >> (BAR) to locate bios
> >>    on a PCI card and load it?  Specifically, this is regarding a 3ware
> RAID
> >> card.
> >
> > This is done now in user mode via emulation, for a number of reasons, and 
> > this emulation will move to linuxbios in a month or so.
> >
> That's good to hear.  We'd like to do some testing in-house once this is
> available.
> 

Why do you want to do this ? AFIAK, 3ware one of the few open source 
friendly vendors, the driver in the kernel can pretty much handle
anything.

Ollie





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