Device Drivers

[vivekr]

Hi,
I am new to this group and i am starting to write device drivers for a PCI peripheral which is used for some high speed data transfers.
When the system boots,the BIOS identifies any new hardware and fills in the details of this device in the configuration register in the PCI configuration space.Now when i tried to access its info using the device ID and the vendor ID,the config registers say that the device is not found.So does it mean that the BIOS did not fill in the right values of the device during system bootup?If so what is the solution?
Vivek.

[JimH]

So does it mean that the BIOS did not fill in the right values of the device during system bootup? If so what is the solution?

Hmm, I don't think we have any kernel programming guru's around here. :'(

But looking through the kernel docs I found this:

"5. Addresses and interrupts
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Memory and port addresses and interrupt numbers should NOT be read from the config space. You should use the values in the pci_dev structure as they might have been remapped by the kernel."

This is from pci.txt in the kernel source documentation. Might want to take a glance at it and see if you find anything that helps you out.

Jim H

[SkyNet]

WoW JimH,

I'm not sure if this solved his problem, but it seems as if you hit the nail on the head. I would love to hear a response from this guy.

[JimH]

I would love to hear a response from this guy.

That makes two of us. ;D

Jim H