PCI Error Recovery API Proposal. (WAS:: [PATCH/RFC]PCIErrorRecovery)

Nguyen, Tom L tom.l.nguyen at intel.com
Sat Mar 19 05:33:00 EST 2005


On Friday, March 18, 2005 10:10 AM Grant Grundler wrote:
>A port bus driver does NOT sound like a normal device driver.
>If PCI Express defines a standard register set for a bridge
>device (like PCI COnfig space for PCI-PCI Bridges), then I
>don't see a problem with PCI-Express error handling code mucking
>with those registers. Look at how PCI-PCI bridges are supported
>today and which bits of code poke registers on PCI-PCI Bridges.

Please refer to PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt for how port bus driver works.

Thanks,
Long



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