Subject: Re: PnP weirdness
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/29/1998 11:08:45
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:19:15 +0200 (MET DST)
Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> wrote:
> But, something else happened. PCI GURUS:
> When I claimed that the OS was PnP aware then the PCI based ethernet
> card stopped working because the PCI attachment code said it couldn't
> map its I/O registers. Why? Do we depend on BIOS to set up the PCI
> cards? Why?
Right, see my mail on this subject. According to the PCI spec, the
system firmware is supposed to program the mapping registers for
PCI devices; AFAIK, the operating system software isn't really supposed
to muck with them.
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