You don't need PCI bios support if your PCI bus implementation is standard,
you can undefine PCI bios support or just whipe it out from your
flash/rom. Take look at ...arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c. I have system
with no bios at all and haven't seen any problems.
At 10:45 AM 2/10/00 -0600, Eric Seppanen wrote:
>I'm using Linux 2.2 on an x86 embedded system with a rather broken PCI
>BIOS. I've been limping along for about a year with its shortcomings, but
>I've just discovered that my BIOS has no ability to configure PCI bridges
>and secondary buses, and I'm starting to think that perhaps my best bet
>would be to patch the kernel to redo the PCI configuration (address
>assignments, etc.) as necessary.
>
>Has anybody done this before? I'm lazy and I'll borrow code if it exists.
>
>Eric Seppanen
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