Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL) | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:44:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The PCI Specification states, in part, that either the BIOS or the > driver has to enable the device. So, many drivers find that the device > has not been enabled. This is normal and necessary because many/most > PCI hardware had better not be enabled until an ISR is in-place.
The Linux 2.4 kernel API means that you must call
pci_enable_device(dev)
which also knows about architecture specific magic too
Alan
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