From: Marcus Sundberg <marcus@cendio.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations
Date: 17 Nov 2000 22:35:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ven1eye0ya.fsf@lipta.cendio.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011171953.TAA01877@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001117145621.23447A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
In-Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:59:04 -0500 (EST)"
root@chaos.analogic.com ("Richard B. Johnson") writes:
[about PCI setup code]
> This stuff has to be set up before you
> have any resources necessary to execute the output of a 'C' compiler,
> so, if you are looking for 'C' syntax, you are out of luck.
Sorry, but that's plain rubbish.
Some things in bootcode usually have to be done in assembly, but
PCI setup is definitely *not* among them, unless you have some
really unique hardware. Hell, I've even written bootcode where
the memory-controller is set up from C.
//Marcus
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-17 16:20 VGA PCI IO port reservations Russell King
2000-11-17 16:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 16:46 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 16:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 16:58 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 17:11 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 21:43 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2000-11-17 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-18 17:41 ` About IOs, ISA, PCI, and life (WAS: VGA PCI IO port...) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-11-17 17:13 ` VGA PCI IO port reservations Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 17:20 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 18:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 19:52 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 19:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 20:02 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-18 1:20 ` Olivier Galibert
2000-11-18 2:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-18 17:02 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-27 22:10 ` Kai Henningsen
2000-11-17 21:35 ` Marcus Sundberg [this message]
2000-11-17 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-17 20:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 16:47 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-17 16:56 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-17 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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