[parisc-linux] iotree thoughts
Matthew Wilcox
willy@debian.org
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:20:36 +0100
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:59:25PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> I was confused. The Dino built-in discovery doesn't make PDC calls.
OK, that clears that up :-)
> > So it seems to me that we shouldn't do bus-walks underneath Dino, but
> > rely on PDC telling us about the device if it's attached.
>
> Uhm, "underneath" is ambiguous since both built-ins and PCI devices
> are heirarchially below "dino" (iotree view - not HW view).
> We need to do PCI bus walks for PCI devices.
I mean native buswalks. PCI buswalks are outside the scope of this topic.
> I'll assume your statement only refers to Dino built-ins and agree.
> FWIW, same is true for LASI devices.
Hmm. OK.
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