Subject: Re: support for unconfigured PCI devices, esp. SD card reader
To: None <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/30/2007 06:49:59
On 30-Jul-07, at 2:55 AM, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Here's the code that Nicolas Joly wrote, with slight mod's by me,  
> to locate which device addresses respond on the SMBus.  Note that  
> there's still no way to figure out what these devices are, only  
> determine if they exist or not.

The SMBus specification talks about discoverable devices; have you  
looked into this at all? WIth this type of support in our SMBus  
framework we will be able to do direct configuration on ARP-capable  
devices.

I'm very cautious about indirect configuration for I2C devices...

Cheers,
Jared