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Subject: Re: PCI BIOS 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: PCI BIOS 
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:25:16 -0700
> Just to note that I've been looking at this code a bit, and at least the 
> PCI bus interface/implementation is really nice.  It could do with a 
> little cleaning up, but this would give us the ability to assign PCI 
> resources on the fly (can you say "hot-plug PCI"?).
> 
> Do you plan to continue with this work?  Could you write a few words 
> describing what the goal of this particular development tree is?

Yes.
I'm wrinting a code now.

My first goal is to support dynamic assignment of PCI interrupt.
It is required to support CardBus.

Final goal is to support CompactPCI.
A CompactPCI device is dinamically inserted/removed like a PC Card.
I think we need to assign PCI resource(interrupt, bus number, etc...)
on the fly to support a CompactPCI and other Hot-plug PCI devices.
#Maybe, Docking Station is a Hot-plug device.

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