Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/dev/pci
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/31/2002 13:30:21
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:12:37PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> > Not even the hot-plug controller shows up? Dang.
>
> Hot-plug controllers are themselves just PCI-PCI bridges. The problem
> is that you could plug in a device with another PCI-PCI bridge.
Ahh.. That makes more sense. Can we tell if a bridge is a hot-plug one? If
so, we could reserve it a certain number of busses for plugged-in cards,
and then just continue.
Take care,
Bill