Re: ExpressCard hotswap support?

From: Chris Adams
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 21:53:08 EST


Once upon a time, Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> On 4 May, 01:20, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I've got a Thinkpad Z60m with an ExpressCard slot, and I got a Belkin
> >F5U250 GigE ExpressCard (Marvell 88E8053 chip using sky2 driver). It
> >appears that Linux only recognizes it if I insert the card with the
> >system powered off. If I hot-insert the card, nothing happens (no
> >messages logged, no PCI device shows up, nothing).
>
> The BIOS initialises and powers up the downstream PCI express port
> when it detects a card is present.
>
> When Linux boots, it enumerates the bus and sees it, but does not do
> prior configuration to enable, configure and cause link negotiation on
> all PCI express ports I believe; this requires chipset and (sometimes
> revision-) specific code, which wouldn't be so robust as the BIOS
> doing the footwork.

Actually, for me, loading pciehp with pciehp_force=1 set works.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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