A MUCH better book on PCI is the Solari and Willse book on PCI. Their book
is worth the high dollar value they put on it.
–
Bill McKenzie
Compuware Corporation
http://www.compuware.com/products/driverstudio/
“Russ Poffenberger” wrote in message
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>
> At 01:28 PM 2/28/2003 +0000, sajeev sas wrote:
> >Hello All,
> >
> >I have a PCI card which works on Unix (RISC - big
> >end).
> >When I try to use it on a PC, Win2k never comes up. I
> >haven’t seen where it’s hung, since I don’t have a
> >windbg setup ready.
> >
> >Do you think, it might be a problem related to the
> >endianness of the system? Anybody aware of PCI cards
> >working across different endian systems?
>
> Technically it should work as long as the card follows the PCI spec.
>
> While there is no hard standard for the endianess of the BAR spaces, it IS
> defined in the spec exactly what the layout of the configuration space is.
> This configuration space defines all the PnP aspects of the device. As
long
> as Win2000 has no driver loaded that matches the board configuration
> (defined by the vendor and device ID fields), then it should boot up and
> start the “New Hardware Found” wizard. If W2K fails to boot, then it may
be
> that the card does not truly follow the PCI standard.
>
> A good book on the PCI bus is the Mindshare book “PCI System Architecture”
> by Tom Shanley.
>
>
> Russ Poffenberger
> NPTest, Inc.
> xxxxx@NPTest.com
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