Re: NVidia nForce4 + AMD Athlon64 X2 --> no access to north-bridge PCI resources

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 11/7/05, Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> wrote:
>
> The _very_short_ view of  lspci  output on a problem machine:
>
> 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
> 05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller
> 05:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
> 05:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
> 05:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
>
> This problem machine is  ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
> AMD CPU family/model/stepping: 15/35/2
>
> The question is:
>
>   Where are "host bridge" subsystem things in this new
>   ASUS board with NVidia nForce4 ?
>

Interesting. Here's another NForce4 from Asus - A8N-E. It does not
show the problem you observe:

lightning ~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory
Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
Controller (rev f3)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
Controller (rev f3)
0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370
5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
0000:05:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME
Hammerfall DSP (rev 68)
0000:05:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2
IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
lightning ~ #

- Mark