From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: , Subject: Re: PCI compatibility Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:53:14 +0200 Message-Id: <20000720155314.9357@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <39771F7D.EC15EC8D@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <39771F7D.EC15EC8D@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/