[coreboot] [PATCH] Drop drivers/pci/onboard

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Nov 6 23:31:06 CET 2009


On 06.11.2009 22:47, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> A device which hangs off itself?
>>     
>
> I couldn't tell.  The PCI devfn (1.0) doesn't help because a child device
> will be on a different bus, so it's allowed to have the same devfn as its
> parent.  That's why I left it.
>   

Ah.


>> Hm. Kill the above line? Could be a botched cut-n-paste.
>>     
> Could be.  Again, I couldn't tell.  Anyone with the board would know the
> first time they booted, so it could be removed.  I was trying to be
> minimally invasive.
>   

Right. Good goal.


> I'm not sure what looks fishy here.  This is the way I understand it:
> 1. Devices between the 'on' and 'end' tokens are children (or children of
> children) of the device.
> 2. The 'chip' token assigns the driver for devices inside it.
>
> So in this case, device 1.0 has an AGP bus with 0.0 hanging off of it.
>   

Thanks for the explanation.
Go ahead!

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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