Re: Linux 2.6.13

[Henrik Persson]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:41:03AM +0200, Henrik Persson wrote:
> 
>>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>>There it is. 
>>>
>>>The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86
>>>use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources.  
>>>That uncovered rather a lot of nasty small details, but should also mean
>>>that a lot of laptops in particular should be able to discover PCI devices
>>>behind bridges that the BIOS hasn't set up.
>>>
>>>We've hopefully fixed up all the problems that the longish -rc series
>>>showed, and it shouldn't be that painful, but if you have device problems,
>>>please make a report that at a minimum contains the unified diff of the
>>>output of "lspci -vvx" running on 2.6.12 vs 2.6.13. That might give us
>>>some clues.
>>
>>Well. 2.6.13 won't boot if I have my Netgear WG511 in the cardbus slot.
>>It boots just fine if it isn't inserted, though. If I insert it later
>>on, the computer will freeze and won't respond, just like it does on boot.
>>
>>2.6.12.5 works just fine, and I just did make oldconfig and used the
>>defaults (except for the hardware monitoring).
>>
>>Suggestions, anyone?
> 
> 
> Can you try the patch posted to lkml at:
> 	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112541348008047&w=2
> from Ivan to see if that helps this?

Indeed. 2.6.13 now booting without any problems at all (well, no
problems yet anyway..) :)

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Henrik Persson

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