Neil
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:41:11 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> sharpos-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [SharpOS Developers]
> LogicalError: DiskDriverKernel> > On Dec 27, 2007 8:34 AM, Bruce Markham
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > PCI configuration information is located by
> writing a UInt32 (a combination> > of bus, slot, device sub-function, and the
> index of the UInt16 you want to> > read from the config data), to port 0xCF8.
> And then the UInt16 that you> > targeted can be read from port 0xCFC. Write
> parameters to one port, to read> > a specific value from another. The
> parameters vary based on where the device> > is at, and how you are trying to
> use it.> > Well singularity uses a signature attribute at the class level
> like this:> [Signature("/pci/03/00/5333/8811")]> which contains the pci
> information about the device, this can then be> used to initialize the> ports
> and memory..> sorry if i'm being vague, i'd have to read up on pci specs
> before i> could say something more precise about how this could be done>
> semantically & in actuall code.> > > > I was just curious if you could
> brainstorm a semantic for it, since your> > brain is already on the right
> track for this idea.> >> > I mean, I know we *could* do this, *somehow*. I
> was j/c if you could think> > of anything.> >> > This is an awesome idea. The
> only problem is, I fear that in order to do it> > right, we'll have to wait a
> while before we do it. (I mean, the JIT/AOT> > could totally be augmented to
> do all this for us, leaving C# code generation> > completely out of the
> picture.)> > Well that would be the ideal way of doing things eventually
> (security> wise), but for now we could use a tool which simply generates some
> c#> files..
I created a PCI enumerator, but had no way to dynamically store anything
because there is/was no way to do create a dynamically sized array. well no
way I could program one as I know nothing about how the memory manager works
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