bus device driver
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 13 18:44:46 UTC 2009
On Monday 13 July 2009 10:05:15 am Norbert Koch wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just started to write a device
> driver for a multi-function pci card.
> This card replaces a number of
> independant isa hardware devices.
> This pci card contains memory, i/o
> and interrupt sources.
> I want my device driver to
> serve as a bus driver between
> the pci driver and the specific
> device drivers.
>
> Do I need more than the following (see below)?
> Do I have to do any bookkeeping for allocated resources?
How do the child devices receive resources? Do they suballocate regions from
BARs in the PCI device or is your device a subtractive bridge that will
forward requests for ISA ranges and your devices all use ISA ranges?
--
John Baldwin
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