Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:17:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > > What you will miss, is uniform access for all devices, including those > you are not managing as PCI-E. Notable example is bridges. I can't > provide more info (see prev. mail about brain dead, I don't want it to > be my last day at work), but you may found appropriate to tweak some > stuff for bridges in extended space. One may use /proc/bus/pci/ or > 'setpci' for this. Obviously, in this case you have no driver, and > generic access method would help you. Also, 'lspci' don't know about > device drivers, it need generic way to access config.
Ok, the /proc/bus/pci argument is a pretty good one, so having a uniform way to access the config space sounds fair.
And it doesn't look that ugly any more, so I guess if just the detection can be fixed (and real devices enter the market) I don't see any reason not to do it that way.
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