Re: A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-13 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:21:14AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: No we don't. We use what the BIOS provides, but will lazily allocate the BARs as necessary. We don't open the resource windows on the bridges, however. This 'sorta' works now. I program a hard-coded window into the PCI bridge

Re: A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-13 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:21:14AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : No we don't. We use what the BIOS provides, but will lazily allocate : the BARs as necessary. We don't open the resource windows on the :

A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I have acquired a Mobility Electronics EasiDock 5000. As some of you may already know, this is a device which allows you to connect regular PCI cards to your laptop, using a device called a 'Split Bridge'. (*) Ok. Cool toy, you may be thinking. Indeed. But I want to make it work with

Re: A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-11 Thread Scott Long
Bruce M Simpson wrote: Hi, I have acquired a Mobility Electronics EasiDock 5000. As some of you may already know, this is a device which allows you to connect regular PCI cards to your laptop, using a device called a 'Split Bridge'. (*) Ok. Cool toy, you may be thinking. Indeed. But I want to make

Re: A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:25:07AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Asking for 'hotplug support' is pretty generic and non-descriptive. Are you asking for device level hotplug support, where we carefully drain transactions out of a device, device driver, and whatever I/O or network or whatever layers

Re: A question about hot-pluggable PCI.

2005-04-11 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:25:07AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: : Asking for 'hotplug support' is pretty generic and non-descriptive. Are : you asking for device level hotplug support, where we carefully drain :