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Re: PCI Issue


Thank You Very Much Andrew :-)

Yes, I will keep on working on this issue if I get
something noticeable, then I will update in discuss
list so in future others can get help from this.

Thank n Rgrds
-Anupam

--- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:28:41AM +0000, anupam
> sakargayan wrote:
> > HI Nick. :-)
> > 
> > I searched with chip number and I found card
> manuals.
> > Manual just shows the specification and features
> of
> > the card. I found base address and IRQ of each
> port is
> > allotted by system BIOS. I didn?t find driver code
> for
> > exact board but I got similar board driver code.
> That
> > code access BIOS space to get the port base and
> port
> > number information of a card. 
> > 
> > Can we do the same in eCOS? I have already
> searched in
> > eCOS but I didn?t find any API to access BIOS
> space.
> 
> BIOS is very much an i386 PC mother board thing. 99%
> of embedded
> computers don't have a BIOS. Probably the only
> reason BIOS is used is
> to ensure that the serial ports are placed at the
> address that M$
> Windoze knows to find them. eCos does not need this
> limitation.
> 
> Keep searching and hopefully you will find either a
> data sheet or a
> *nix driver.
> 
>         Andrew
> 
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