Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:09:19 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probing a PCI device!! Message-ID: <199805220109.SAA27009@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 21 May 1998 17:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com> wrote: > I am trying to probe a PCI device and I am in the odd situation where the > firmware has to be downloaded onto the card before I can check the > Vendor/Device ID. It is set by the firmware.. > > How do I solve the chicken and egg problem? Or am I missing something? Yow. What device is this?! Seems.... rather braindead. _Something_ has to be there, or else how does the system console firmware (in the PC world, the BIOS) know to configure the card's mapping registers and route its interrupt? Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 428 6939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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