On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:10:52PM -0700, Marc Jones wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > On 10.12.2007 21:56, Marc Jones wrote: > >> A devices needs to be listed in the config.lb if it requires more setup > >> than standard PCI initialization (resource allocation). Usually that > >> means the CPU, northbridge, southbridge, and SIO. Those devices are > >> usually needed to indicate the system bus structure(pci_domain) as well > >> as do any system specific initialization on those devices. > >> > >> During the LinuxBIOS PCI/system scan process, if a device in config.lb > >> is found, the functions to do customized initialization are called via > >> the device_operations and the chip_operations structs. > >> > > > > Can you add that explanation to the wiki? > > > > Regards, > > Carl-Daniel > > > > What page would this go on? I don't see an appropriate place.
I'd say http://linuxbios.org/Developer_Manual#Config.lb (maybe with some rewording to make it more generic and HOWTO-like) HTH, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
