> Hi,
>
> I need the bt848/bt878 driver to find out the motherboard's PCI chipset.
> IE, Is this Bt878 card sitting on a VIA, SIS, OPTi or INTEL motherboard.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> The Bt878 can be programmed to run in
> "Intel (Full PCI2.1 ompatible) Mode"
> "Intel 440FX mode"
> "SIS/VIA/OPTi" mode.
> Each mode drives the PCI bus mastering slightly differently to cater
> for bugs/features in various PCI chipsets.
>
> Setting the Bt878 to SIS/VIA/OPTi mode fixed some strange
> machine hangs experienced by a UK user yesterday.
>
>
> I'd like the Bt848 driver to inquire about the PCI bus.
> To get the VENDOR and DEVICE_ID codes.
>
> It can then automatically enable the right mode on Bt878
> chips.
>
> Any ideas?
> Ideally I need a method for 2.2.x, 3.x and -current.
>
> Bye
> Roger
> --
> Roger Hardiman
> Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland.
> http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897
> ro...@cs.strath.ac.uk
Roger -
Just a thought - not really an answer to your question... but...
I struck me that since bt848 isn't in the default kernel (you have
to build your own kernel for it) - couldn't you just make this
a flag in the config file?
Then, a couple of #ifdef's in the bt848 driver would handle it.
Granted - the kernel becomes quite machine specific at that point,
so - this is definately not the best answer (automatically determining
as you suggest, would be better.)
- Dave Rivers -
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