Subject: Re: looking for devices on PCI bus [II]
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/03/2001 18:31:19
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:12:47PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> ...VIA makes at least two chipsets in which an AGP video controller (IOW,
> a device on a *second* PCI bus) is integrated into the northbridge (which
> is a device on the *first* PCI bus). What if they changed the video frob
> (as they've changed the IDE frob) but didn't change its own device ID? The
> situation is precisely analogous to what they did with their pciide, but
> now there _is_ a second bus involved. :-(
You mis-understood. They are on different "bus" numbers (e.g. bus #0,
bus #1, etc.), but they are in the *SAME* PCI heirarchy.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>