-----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. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLduV/PlVHJtIto0RAhVnAJ98QaZJb54Pay3YomPCfZKZnfx/EACggpVo KfWHHCCeL+a+sRSC59nNQZM= =40ae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
