From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: emperor@EmperorLinux.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
EmperorLinux Research <research@EmperorLinux.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : Cisco mpi350 _way_ sub-optimal
Date: 08 Jul 2003 16:42:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057678950.4358.53.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708112016.A10882@light-brigade.mit.edu>
On Maw, 2003-07-08 at 16:20, Gerald Britton wrote:
> Some of them have issues with PCI resource allocation though. Their BIOSes
> don't allocate resources to Cardbus bridges so insertted devices can't get
> resources and last i checked, we didn't handle this fixup.
Thats actually a Linux bug.
> On the notebooks I worked with it required relocating the AGP bridge and several other devices
> to make all the resources work out (quick hack is to just shove new resources
> into the config registers prior to the kernel's initial pci scan).
Interesting. I wonder why our fixup would have failed - its not something I've
seen but we should fixup cardbus resource blocks (2.4 isnt smart enough to
handle multidevice cardbus but Rmk has 2.5 code that is), but for the normal
case it ought to have worked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-03 16:49 Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : TCPA updates Lincoln Durey
2003-06-03 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-03 18:29 ` Josh Litherland
2003-06-03 17:04 ` Michael Frank
2003-06-03 17:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-04 12:39 ` Derek Fawcus
2003-06-06 22:59 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-09 12:57 ` Dana Lacoste
2003-06-09 16:56 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-10 23:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-07-07 18:12 ` Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : Cisco mpi350 _way_ sub-optimal Lincoln D. Durey
2003-07-08 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 15:20 ` Gerald Britton
2003-07-08 15:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-08 17:24 ` Gerald Britton
2003-07-08 17:44 ` Russell King
2003-07-08 20:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-09 22:35 ` Gerald Britton
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