On 4/24/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:20:01PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:03:32PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: > >> Does Linux assign the resources to PCI devices? Or is it done by PCI > >> firmware? > > > >Yes. > > I'm sorry but I could not understand your "Yes" very well ... so Which > one of the following assigns the resources to PCI devices? Sorry, forgot to remove the remaining question. > - Linux Kernel? Kernel. > - PCI firmware? Modern BIOSes usually only initialise the devices needed for boot: disk and video card. With older BIOSes you can control that by the "PnP OS" option, even older BIOSes initialise every device.
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