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Top Forums Programming help writing pci firmware Post 302490399 by fpmurphy on Monday 24th of January 2011 06:16:48 PM
Old 01-24-2011
NeurOn, please compose your thoughts so that people do not waste their valuable time trying to decipher what you mean. Ongoing vagueness on your part is not appreciated.

Before anybody on this forum can ever begin to assist you, you need to decide what firmware your proposed driver code is going to run on, how you are going to program the firmware, and what hardware your low-level PCI driver is going to work with.

Oh, and which particular PCI standard are you planning to develop against

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BTW, have you figured out which type of PCI bus is in your PC?
 

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npe(7D) 							      Devices								   npe(7D)

NAME
npe - PCI Express bus nexus driver DESCRIPTION
The npe nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express Root Complex devices that provide PCI Express interconnect. This driver is com- pliant to PCI Express base specification, Revision 1.0a. This nexus driver provides support for the following features: Access to extended configuration space, IEEE 1275 extensions for PCI Express, Base line PCI Express error handling and PCI Express MSI interrupts. FILES
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/npe 32-bit ELF kernel module. /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/npe 64-bit ELF kernel module. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Architecture |x64 PCI Express-based systems | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcakr.i | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), pcie(4), pcie_pci(7D) PCI Express Base Specification v1.0a -- 2003 Writing Device Drivers IEEE 1275 PCI Bus Binding -- 1998 http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/pci/pci-express.txt SunOS 5.11 12 Oct 2005 npe(7D)
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