Re: EPIA PCI slot

"Brian G. Rhodes"  writes:
> Ron,
>
> I was always under the impression that the BIOS should enable a device
> (bus master) always.  And slaves would not be able to be set.

Nope.  The BIOS only needs to do this for devices needed to boot.
> Some
> devices set a capability which you can read this from to know whether the
> device should be a master or not.
>
> Why, or where, should the OS do it?  Driver?

Yes, in the driver.  Under linux this is the pci_set_master call.

Eric