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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/01/2011 10:08 AM, Jon Mason wrote:
>>
>> pci_is_pcie checks for a PCI-E capability offset that was determined
>> by calling pci_find_capability during the PCI bus walking.  Based on
>> your description above this should be functionally equivalent.  If
>> this is not safe, then the PCI bus walking code is most likely busted
>> on EEH enabled PPC systems (and that is a BIG problem).
>
> Are there PPC systems that support PCI-E cards? I looked for one earlier and
> did not find any. In particular, I wanted a machine to test the Realtek
> drivers for correct big-endian operation. I settled on a Powerbook G4 so
> that I could test the USB drivers.

High-end IBM PPC systems have PCI-E, but are most likely too expensive
for an individual user.  If you are okay with 32bit PPC, you can use
qemu to emulate PPC (see qemu-system-ppc).  I believe you can do USB
pass-though on the emulated system.

Thanks,
Jon

> Larry
>
>
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