Re: Bios32 PCI detection

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:38:33PM -0400, Rabeeh Khoury wrote:

> I'm using MIPS based board using an embedded system PCI bus.
> 
> I managed to detect the agents on the PCI, does anyone has a program
> that can divide the memory/io spaces for each agents automatically ?
> (what usually does BIOS in x86 world)

The kernel PCI bus software can do the full resource assignment for you.
Checkout how some of the Alphas handle this; the MIPS systems don't use
this.

A userspace program can't do this since for most cases you need a fully
operational PCI bus for booting.

  Ralf