Re: PCI config space patcher

[vincent guffens]

Marco Gerards wrote:

> Clemens Fruhwirth <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Clemens,
>
>  
>
> > I have had a problem with VIA chipsets. I abused GRUB to solve it. The
> > intermediate product is a PCI config space patcher in GRUB. Not that
> > it's anything new, as GRUB already contains proper PCI in
> > netboot. However, I added a command line interface so it's available at
> > boot.
> >    
>
> This list is about GRUB 2, while what you did is for GRUB Legacy.
>
> But I think you might be interested in GRUB 2 as well.  It will get
> PCI support by default (Vincent is working on this, at the moment), so
> it might be easier to patch GRUB 2 when it is ready.
>
> --
> Marco
>
>  
indeed the PCI implementation for grub2 is on its way. As the rest of 
grub2, it will be object oriented and will allow for
easily adding a new implementation. You should therefore find it easy to 
add your patch to this framework once it is done.

At least I hope so !

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                Vincent Guffens
                Intelligent Systems & Networks Group
		Research associate, Imperial College