Re: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Tina Declerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you. I'm not questioning the functionality of the driver, however, > some customers like to configure 3ware RAID using the 3ware bios. If it > is called during the system boot the driver isn't involved. This is not > taking anything from existing

RE: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-05 Thread ron minnich
get back to me re VGA in a month or so. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Smith
Tina Declerck wrote: Thank you. I'm not questioning the functionality of the driver, however, some customers like to configure 3ware RAID using the 3ware bios. If it is called during the system boot the driver isn't involved. This is not taking anything from existing functionality but trying to

RE: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-05 Thread Tina Declerck
Hi Ollie, > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote: > >> - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address > Register > >> (BAR) to locate bios > >>on a PCI card and load it? Specifically, this is regarding a 3ware > RAID > >> card. > > > > This is done now in user mode

RE: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-05 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:12, Tina Declerck wrote: > On Thurs, 4 Mar 2004, ron minnich wrote: > Ron, > > Thank you for the quick response > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote: > >> - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address > Register > >> (BAR) to locate bios > >>

RE: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-05 Thread Tina Declerck
On Thurs, 4 Mar 2004, ron minnich wrote: Ron, Thank you for the quick response > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote: >> - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address Register >> (BAR) to locate bios >>on a PCI card and load it? Specifically, this is regarding a 3wa

Re: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-04 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote: > - Does the Linux BIOS do discovery on PCI slots for the existance of cards? yes > > - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address Register > (BAR) to locate bios >on a PCI card and load it? Specifically, this is regarding a 3wa

Re: PCI card bios accessibility

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi! On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Tina Declerck wrote: > - Does the Linux BIOS do discovery on PCI slots for the existance > of cards? Yes, LinuxBIOS enumerates PCI buses behind hosts and bridges. > - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address > Register (BAR) t