PCI compatibility

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>Ani Joshi wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Sacha Varma wrote:
>>
>> > So... does this mean that as far as hardware is concerned there is
>nothing to prevent me from using any old PCI graphics card in a (non-
>AGP?) mac so long as linux has drivers for it?
>>
>> Correct, there is nothing preventing any PCI graphics device from working
>> in linux unless there is something extremely fundamentally wrong with it
>> (like relying on PC BIOS too much, but that is very rare)
>
>Or Linux not finding the card because it didn't get an OF device tree
>node?

Normally, all PCI cards should get a node. Linux will use normal PCI
probing so it can find cards missing in OF, but in this case, I beleive
it won't be able to map the interrupt line.


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