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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:04:47 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PEX 8111 PCI-Express to PCI Bridge and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200712281304.47922.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <8103ad500712270516l5db13e1ao388835d01fd19fc3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8103ad500712270516l5db13e1ao388835d01fd19fc3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday 27 December 2007 08:16:59 am Konstantin Dimitrov wrote:
> hello All,
> 
> as far as i understand the documentation of the PEX 8111 PCI
> Express-to-PCI Bridge, which is freely available here:
> 
> http://www.plxtech.com/products/expresslane/pex8111.asp
> 
> it is "Fully Transparent PCI Express to PCI Bridge", but under FreeBSD
> it doesn't seem to behave as transparent, i.e. it doesn't seem to work
> well with the standard FreeBSD PCI-PCI bridge driver, because it's not
> possible to read/write from/to the PCI IC behind PEX 8111.

Can you provide more detail on what you mean by read/write?  Can you not do 
config space transactions to child devices of the bridge or can you not 
access mapped BARs of child devices or what exactly?

-- 
John Baldwin



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