This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
bridges with support for 64 bit memory addresses and 32 bit I/O addresses).
The code is not complete. It ignores the upper half of the long addresses.
This is not a problem on PC compatible systems, but has to be fixed for
real computers.
Garrett Wollman sent me this code a few weeks ago for review, and I made
some significant changes, which he in turn accepted ...
In order to make use of these changes, a device entry has to added to /dev.
Submitted by: wollman
1) Supports PCI to PCI bridge devices (and tries to initialise them,
even if the BIOS is brain dead).
2) Supports shared PCI interrupts. Interrupt handlers now MUST return
'0' if they found nothing to do, '1' otherwise.
New features tested with i486 systems based on the Intel Saturn and
a DEC 4channel Ethernet card only, but expected to work on most systems.
The option PCI_REMAP has been removed !
Submitted by: Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@kintaro.cologne.de>
definitions taken from the PCI specs. Part of them were typed
in by Wolfgang Stanglmeier, the (at that time unneeded) rest
by Charles Hannum (thanks !).
Peter Wemm
Jordan K. Hubbard
Stefan Eßer
David Greenman