Re: EPIA PCI slot

[ron minnich]

On 13 Jun 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Brian G. Rhodes"  writes:
> > The reason I was not getting interrupts on devices in the pci slot on the
> > EPIA is because they were not set to be bus masters, so they would never
> > generate interrupts.  A quick write to the command register fixed the
> > problem.  Command register is being set to 0x02.  It should be set to
> > 0x06.  a 6 to 4.
>
> Actually this is an interesting symptom.  Being a Bus Master means you
> can initiate transactions on the PCI bus i.e. DMA.  There is no requirement
> that I know of that the bus master bit applies to IRQ's.  Those are out
> of band signals.

Seems like a hardware bug to me.

ron