[LinuxBIOS] linux pci initialization

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 17:55:21 CEST 2006


On 8/22/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> > * Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> [060822 12:56]:
> > > I gathered from the wiki that linux cant handle a totally
> > > uninitialized pci bus and that linux is close to doing that. Im trying
> > > to read the pci sources in hopes of being able to make linuxbios work
> > > with my kt600 motherboard. So if linux 2.6.17 can already initialize a
> > > totally uninitialized kt600 pci bus then i might start playing with
> > > linuxbios. all thats left is figuring out how to initialize  the dram
> > > controller.
> >
> > LinuxBIOS will set up your PCI devices correctly. The big question is
> > how to get dram working indeed.
>
> Well thats great.
>
> > Can you provide an lspci output to the
> > list?
> >
>
> Yes when i get home.

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP]
Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 03)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA
RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 82)

-- 
things i hate about my linux pc:

1. it takes more than a second to boot up
2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself




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