Re: 2.1.110 PCI patch for booting an NCR S40

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:37:09 +0200

> I had some difficulties to boot (even in uniprocessor) the NCR S40 with
> linux-2.1.110, since it was not able to find the SCSI devices. After some
> investigations, I discovered that this was a bug in the PCI bus parsing,
> since there are 2 PCI busses connected to the processor bus. The code in
> arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c supposes that all HOST-PCI bridges are visible
> on PCI bus 0, which is not the case for the S40 (I guess that the problem
> of Xintian Wu on his Compaq Proliant 7000 should be the same, since the
> symptoms he described are more or less the same that the one I had).
>
> The patch I developed scans potential additional PCI busses after the PCI
> bus 0 has been completely scanned, and work perfectly on my quadri-pentium
> S40.

Can you send me output of 'lspci -vvx' on your machine with and without
your patch?

Thanks
Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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