RE: Violation of the PCI spec.

[Lame Brooks-G14738 <Brooks_Lame@mdcexchsrv1.mry.mcd.mot.com>]

Huh?  Are you planning to do this for a non-embedded product??  If so, a
generic BIOS certainly could refuse to configure your device, or any part of
it.  Good design requires that the BIOS handle the error gracefully, either
by allocating an interrupt anyway, or sending an error message; however, if
you break the spec strictly speaking, all bets are off and you'd better
limit your device associations to embedded systems only.  Also, what if the
BIOS is not doing the resource allocations; what if a PnP OS is doing the
job?  Same problem.
-- BrooksL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maarten.ghijsen@philips.com [mailto:maarten.ghijsen@philips.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 December, 1999 00:14
> To: Mailing List Recipients
> Subject: Violation of the PCI spec.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm planning to violate the PCI spec and I wondered what the 
> consequences of this violation could be. The way I'm planning 
> to violate the spec is by using a 
> #INTx other then #INTA for a single function device. I know 
> the spec states that single function devices should use 
> #INTA, but if I want to use an other pin what will be the 
> result. For instance will the bios refuse to configure my 
> device, since it is a 
> single function device indicating it is using a pin other then #INTA?
> 
> Regards from Maarten Ghijsen,
> 	
> Company: 	Philips DVS (3CoRD)
> EMAIL:		maarten.ghijsen@philips.com
>