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SubjectRe: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

Jonathan Lundell writes:
> As I recall, even a midline chipset such as the ServerWorks LE
> supports the use of two north bridges, which implies two PCI bus
> domains.

It hides this fact by making config space accesses respond in such a
way that it appears that it is all behind one PCI controller. The
BIOS even avoids allowing any of the MEM and I/O resources from
overlapping.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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