From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] I2O: SPARC fixes
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:18:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051116.111843.23450955.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B254E.9040909@shadowconnect.com>
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:25:50 +0100
> > This should be detected at runtime, and that is easily done.
> > You can use the PCI device to get at the firmware device
> > node, and use that to look for a firmware device node property
> > that identifies it as a card from Sun.
> > Usually the "name" property has some identifying string in it.
> > Sometimes there is a property with the string "fcode" in it and you
> > could look for that as well.
>
> OK, i'll look at it... Thanks for the hint!
Actually, my idea won't work if the card is used in a non-Sparc
system. Do these cards have PCI subsystem vendor or device ID's that
identify it as a Sun card?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-16 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 9:31 Markus Lidel
2005-11-15 21:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-16 12:25 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-16 19:18 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-11-17 8:12 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-19 1:07 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-19 1:22 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 3:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-19 4:37 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-20 21:38 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-20 21:42 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-20 22:52 ` Al Viro
2005-11-20 23:07 ` Al Viro
2005-11-20 23:21 ` Al Viro
2005-11-21 0:48 ` Markus Lidel
2005-11-21 1:20 ` Al Viro
2005-11-21 3:38 ` Al Viro
2005-11-21 8:46 ` Markus Lidel
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