Re: Opterons and setting the pci bus master bit

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On Gwe, 2005-09-30 at 13:10 -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> everything is fine. When we connect the same chassis to an Intel P4 box 
> everything is fine. It looks like it is the kernel that sets this bit 
> because we have never set it in any of our drivers, yet on the intel 
> boxes it gets set. Why would this bit not be set when the chassis is 
> connected to an Opteron. We are running 32-bit mode BTW. I am using a 
> 2.6.11.9 kernel. Is this a motherboard problem or could this be a kernel 
> problem?

If your device needs to bus master you need to call
pci_set_master(pci_dev). The bus mastering setup prior to that really
depends on the BIOS and phase of the moon.

See Documentation/pci.txt

Alan

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