From: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
To: Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PCI config space doubt
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:27:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424102733.GD20230@gateway.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b115cb5f0704240250y6360d82ev6dfff657dad7188d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:20:01PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:03:32PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >> Does Linux assign the resources to PCI devices? Or is it done by PCI
> >> firmware?
> >
> >Yes.
>
> I'm sorry but I could not understand your "Yes" very well ... so Which
> one of the following assigns the resources to PCI devices?
Sorry, forgot to remove the remaining question.
> - Linux Kernel?
Kernel.
> - PCI firmware?
Modern BIOSes usually only initialise the devices needed for boot:
disk and video card. With older BIOSes you can control that by the
"PnP OS" option, even older BIOSes initialise every device.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-24 6:33 PCI config space doubt Rajat Jain
2007-04-24 9:41 ` Erik Mouw
2007-04-24 9:50 ` Rajat Jain
2007-04-24 10:27 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2007-04-24 10:38 ` Rajat Jain
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