[LinuxBIOS] PCI: Left over static devices. Check your Config.lb

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Dec 17 23:26:05 CET 2007


On 17.12.2007 23:10, Marc Jones wrote:
>
>
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> On 10.12.2007 21:56, Marc Jones wrote:
>>> A devices needs to be listed in the config.lb if it requires more
>>> setup than standard PCI initialization (resource allocation).
>>> Usually that means the CPU, northbridge, southbridge, and SIO. Those
>>> devices are usually needed to indicate the system bus
>>> structure(pci_domain) as well as do any system specific
>>> initialization on those devices.
>>>
>>> During the LinuxBIOS PCI/system scan process, if a device in
>>> config.lb is found, the functions to do customized initialization
>>> are called via the device_operations and the chip_operations structs.
>>>   
>>
>> Can you add that explanation to the wiki?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Carl-Daniel
>>
>
> What page would this go on? I don't see an appropriate place.

Suggestion: Create a new page with the name "Config.lb".

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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