On 12 Mar 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I need to get new southbridge code that works like the superio code set > > up, but this is something we need right now. We need the southbridge code > > to work like the superio code I think since there may be systems out there > > with more than one southbridge. > > And with hypertransport and intel's hub architecture this is common. > I though that was working already..
yeah, sorry, I got done superio and got tired, and did not wrap up southbridge. My fault. > On the long term agenda, I want to build a table similiar to what > pci_enumerate generates at compile time. This should allows > us to call pci_enumerate much later or not at all if all hardware > is onboard. Plus we can enumerate onboard devices that are not pci. now that's a nice idea. > How much of IDE enable do you need? we're not sure, it still doesn't work :-) It actually looks like all we need is to enable bit 0 in the Command register. Although it doesn't work, who knows why. > On that subject I think it needs to be a goal that LinuxBIOS do enough > that a loaded OS shouldn't need to configure resources. We shouldn't > prevent the OS but allowing it is a good thing. true. Although as Jeff points out the corner cases are a mess. I always hoped that Linux would do the hard work. it is so close. > Hmm. Could we have the prefix be CONFIG or LBCONFIG, when you > get up t CONFIG_LINUXBIOS that is fairly tedious to type. Sold! How about just CONFIG ron
