PCI questions

PCI questions

[Thomas Berkefeld]

Will the future 2.4 kernel incorporate the PPC-PCI fixes or is it better
to install one of the
2.4.0-pre's (which one?) plus the appropriate PCI-fix?

Is it possible to recompile Intel-based PCI-
drivers and get them to work (apart from the reversed byte order)?

Thanks

Thomas Berkefeld


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Re: PCI questions

[tom_gall]

Thomas Berkefeld wrote:
>
> Will the future 2.4 kernel incorporate the PPC-PCI fixes or is it better
> to install one of the
> 2.4.0-pre's (which one?) plus the appropriate PCI-fix?

If you get the latest set of sources from fsmlabs then you will have the PPC-PCI
fixes... assuming you're taking about the new hose code etc.

> Is it possible to recompile Intel-based PCI-
> drivers and get them to work (apart from the reversed byte order)?

Yes... actually generally drivers just work assuming they were written
correctly. Byte order problems do happen tho.

Regards,

Tom

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