Uwe Hermann wrote: > 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.
Reworded a little and added to the wiki. http://linuxbios.org/Developer_Manual#Config.lb Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios