how to write driver for PCI cards
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Quoted 10 lines · On Thursday 11 April 2002 17:27, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 4/11/2002 12:48:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Quoted 6 lines · [email protected] writes:
Yes it is a PLX-9050. The device uses interrupts, but why should I have to know that what type of interrupt it is? Until now I haven't found anything describing it.
I could find out from the docs that it uses memory I/O and everything is done
through a 8K buffer.
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As I remember the serial eeprom from which the PLX-9050 is configured needs to be programmed differently according to the type of interrupt.
I think the device is configured properly because a windows driver exists and it's working correctly. But what do I have to do on the driver side according to the type of the interrupt? Is there any difference from the driver's point if view?
Both needs the interrupt flag to be cleared.
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But more important, I do not believe your company wants to use the 9050 in a cPCI system. This chip does not support hot swappabilitiy. I believe there is an almost identical part, the PLX 9051 (or perhaps the 9052) that does. You might have the hardware engineer check the issue out.
The company uses the 9050 in a C-PCI system. The card is designed in 98 or 99. So the card is produced and there are existing products using it. (of course these are only windows based). But thanks for the info, I will mention the hot swapable problem using the 9050. But I think this feature is delayed at least until I develop the driver.
I suggested already to implement this feature in the driver if the hw supports it but they couldn't tell me whether it supports.
Gabor