As pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: > >Description: > No PCI support can be removed before installing the OS! Well, it's not even _supposed_ to be removable. PCI devices are believed to be reliably auto-configurable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
No PCI support can be removed before installing the OS! How-To-Repeat: Visual mode.
On Nov 30, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: > > >Number: 2130 > >Category: conf > >Synopsis: Installation bug > >Description: > No PCI support can be removed before installing the OS! This is the way it is uspposed to be ... We could add a DISABLE function to the config code, which would directly write some bit in the PCI device's config space command register. This would completely deactivate the device (except for config space accesses) and the PCI code could respect this bit (while it currently tries hard to gat all devices activated that the PCI BIOS might have forgotten, for example behind a PCI to PCI bridge ...) I'm not sure there are really good applications for a ONE time dactivate of a PCI device. And the PCI code assumes that all devices are auto- configuring. And for that reason, a device might be found at a different address (and even in a different 'slot') on each reboot without violating the specs. (This will happen, if you add cards with PCI to PCI bridges and bus. Then, even the bus number of previously installed devices may come out differently ...) Regards, STefan
Just add a small message (when someone presses enter) saying "Device will autodetect safely and cannot be removed". The end user doesn´t need to know the details of PCIs. Pedro. Stefan Esser wrote: > > On Nov 30, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: > > > > >Number: 2130 > > >Category: conf > > >Synopsis: Installation bug > > >Description: > > No PCI support can be removed before installing the OS! > > This is the way it is uspposed to be ... > > > Regards, STefan
State Changed From-To: open->closed Message displayed by visual userconfig updated to indicate that PCI devices cannot be deleted/configured, hopefully reducing the possibiity of confusion.