Re: EBSA285 and PCI

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Baukus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Dave> I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but, I think the PCI
 Dave> bus scanning and setup works correctly on ebsa285; the PCI
 Dave> subsystem has located all devices on the bus. The problem lies
 Dave> in fact that some pre-OS entity, BIOS for lack of a better
 Dave> term, did not allocate IO, MEM, and interupts to the various
 Dave> devices. ...

I think the issue is that EBSA285 doesn't HAVE a BIOS.

Personally, I wonder about depending on such a notion.  There's
nothing wrong with having the OS initialization do the entire system
init from scratch.  At worst that duplicates what a "BIOS" did; at
best it's what makes things work.

        paul
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