Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

[Peter Samuelson]

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> Multiple bus types... Compaq server with PCI and EISA, for example?
> IIRC the EISA bus is bridged onto one of the PCI busses.  Perhaps a
> breadth-first scan; PCI busses first, then bridged devices on PCI,
> then internal non-PCI busses, then external busses.

No, bridging is transparent to most drivers, so this doesn't
necessarily make sense.  The thing to do is just decree "drivers will
be registered in *this* order..." and then list the busses in some
arbitrary order, and specify some sub-scheme for enumerating drivers on
each bus.

...Which still doesn't solve the problem of multiple device types on a
single bus, for which I think my proposal (passing a meta-address of
some sort into scsi_register() and similar, and letting it sort devices
as they come in.  (Until the end of the bootstrap, of course.  Modules
all go in at the end.)

> Are there any systems where a non-PCI bus is not connected through a
> PCI-foo bridge?

There are lots of non-PCI systems out there.  And quite a few, I
suspect, where PCI is bridged off the "native" bus rather than the
other way 'round.

Peter