Re: Configuration of PCI Video card on a BIOS-less board

[Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:55:12PM -0700, Wayne Gowcher wrote:

> I can probe the Base Address Register successfully,
> determine the cards memory requirement and that it is
> memory rather than mapped IO. But when I try to write
> the address I have allocated to the PCI card ( eg
> 0xC000 0000 ) the address will not latch in the base
> address register.

Is that a valid bus address on your system?

> Does anyone know of any code that carries out PCI
> probing similar to that found on x86 PC's ?

Look in drivers/pci - that can scan the bus and such - it's generic
code used on many architectures.  Many systems lack "bios" and work
fine in linux.

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