From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: PCI compatibility
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:53:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000720155314.9357@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39771F7D.EC15EC8D@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
>Ani Joshi wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Sacha Varma wrote:
>>
>> > So... does this mean that as far as hardware is concerned there is
>nothing to prevent me from using any old PCI graphics card in a (non-
>AGP?) mac so long as linux has drivers for it?
>>
>> Correct, there is nothing preventing any PCI graphics device from working
>> in linux unless there is something extremely fundamentally wrong with it
>> (like relying on PC BIOS too much, but that is very rare)
>
>Or Linux not finding the card because it didn't get an OF device tree
>node?
Normally, all PCI cards should get a node. Linux will use normal PCI
probing so it can find cards missing in OF, but in this case, I beleive
it won't be able to map the interrupt line.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-20 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-19 15:21 PCI compatibility Sacha Varma
2000-07-20 13:56 ` Ani Joshi
2000-07-20 14:33 ` Sacha Varma
2000-07-20 15:13 ` Ani Joshi
2000-07-20 15:49 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-07-20 15:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2000-07-20 16:00 ` Ani Joshi
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