[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Nov 30 23:32:02 CET 2006
* Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> [061130 18:22]:
> You typically need to set up quite a bit of the PCI subsystem
> for it to work -- including not only bridges and devices on
> the path to the PCI function you're interested in, but also
> any siblings of any such.
Why would that be?
> And you need to do some work with
> the north bridge typically (open up some window there).
thanks for the compat chain that we reliably have on x86, all of the
above is a noop on 100% of our currently supported machines.
If we happen to see a system where this actually matters, we can
still decide not to go ehci if we find a simpler solution, but lets not
talk this dead for no realworld reason now.
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