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From: "Neil Wilson" <nwilson@airspan.com>
To: <mporter@mvista.com>
Cc: <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: forcing pci device start address ?
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:21:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c1d9ba$c2f27aa0$b3ff883e@m5axc> (raw)


>Ok, I see the horrible mess they put you in.  Those !@$!# hardware
>guys. :-/

>Here's the basic layout:  you can use pci_auto like the other 7xx/74xx
>embedded ports and constrain the I/O and Mem range so as to not conflict
>with the PCI-wannabe devices your hardware guys spit out.  You are
>writing custom drivers so you just depart from the Linux standard of
>ioremaping or in*/out*ing resources and use your hardcoded addresses.

>You could complicate things by manually adding the devices to the
>PCI global list and creating resources but there is no value in that
>for a custom design like this...you could boast about it to your
>fellow engineers if you like though. :)


Thanks for your help, I will start looking at this when I get in tomorrow.

Do you happen to know of a driver example in one of the kernel trees or
elsewhere that implements this hardcoded address business that I can learn
from ?

Thanks.

Neil


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-01 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-01 20:21 Neil Wilson [this message]
2002-04-01 20:35 ` forcing pci device start address ? Matt Porter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-31 20:02 Neil Wilson
2002-04-01  4:04 ` Matt Porter
2002-03-30 17:14 Neil Wilson
2002-03-30 23:24 ` Matt Porter

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