by Eduardo Horvath and Simon Burge of Wasabi Systems.
IBM 4xx series CPU features:
- New pmap and revised trap handler.
- Support on-chip timers, PCI controller, UARTs
- Framework for on-chip ethernet and watchdog timer.
General PowerPC features:
- Add in-kernel PPC floating point emulation
- New in{,4}_cksum that is between 1.5 and 5 times faster than the
old version depending on CPU type.
General changes:
- Kernel support for generic dbsym-style symbols.
configuration (assignment of bus numbers, BARs, timer values,
interrupt lines, etc.).
The interface must be called from m.d. code prior to probing the bus.
It is meant to be called once for each primary (bus == 0) PCI bus in
the system. It will configure any busses behind PCI-PCI bridges.
Section 9 man page for pci_configure_bus() will come soon.
In the meantime, sample usage is in arch/sandpoint/sandpoint/mainbus.c.
[ Reviewed by thorpej ]
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