[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: fix PCI bus scan / device tree interaction

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Aug 30 10:58:08 CEST 2008


ron minnich wrote:
> so let's do this. Use the new v2 device tree visualizer on serengeti
> and see how it looks.
>   
With a little for loop I was able to produce images for all mainboards

http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/devicetree/dot
http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/devicetree/fdp
> This fragility is a reflection of how difficult device enumeration on
> PCs is. There are lots of bugs and corner cases to cover in the
> hardware, and it makes it hard to get it just right. Further, as
> mentioned, the evolution of hardware had major impact on the code over
> the last 8 years.
>   
And it should continue to do so. The device tree code has been mostly
unchanged since 2004 or so.




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