Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:05:42 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.20 will not boot (PCI problem) |
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Hi Alan,
> We can also use the $PIR rom table. This gives you a table of the PCI irq > routing, at least for the primary bus. > (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/pciirq.htm)
We're already using it :-)) We call the BIOS Get Interrupt Routing Table service only if $PIR table is not found.
> With ACPI the ACPI database gives a semi-parseable data table (actually its > a complete horror). [ACPI has turned into such a catastrophe MS Win 98 OSR2 > basically doesnt use it]
I was playing with the idea of using ACPI databases, but after I've looked at some of them, I returned back to the reality :)
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"..."
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