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Re: PCI Issue
- From: anupam sakargayan <sc_anupam_s at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Cc: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>, ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:39:38 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] 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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