I was wondering if anyone had a small suggestion of PCI cards to begin testing Linux with for debugging a PCI bus / software / setup.
Basically I am looking for a couple of cards that are known to have good working PPC drivers for PCI, hopefully built-in into the kernel. Preferable that somebody has first has experience with. I seem to be having issues with Linux only, and getting my PCI stuff to work. Still not sure if these are DTV blob issues, or incompatibility with the PCI-PCI bridge chip I have in the PPC system. Questions: 1) Can somebody provide the names of just a few cards that have been tested with these 82xx 83xx PCI busses that have worked in Linux 2.6.xx? I hope to not be fighting endian issues in the drivers at first. 2) What is available / known about PCI bridge compatibility / enumeration when it comes to PPC architecture? I know Linux sees the bridge, but are there mapping compatibility issues introduced if an extra bridge is in place? 3) Directly related to Question 2, is there any special options have to be enabled in the Linux 2.6.xx kernel <2.6.20 specifically> to make this happen? PreP compliance, G5 support, no idea I am just throwing ideas. Any help appreciated, I was hoping originally that once the PCI was happy inside U-boot that Linux wouldn't be such a far target. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded