Re: PCI bridging broken?

From: Martin Mares (mj@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 15:43:58 EST


Hello!

> I looked back through the archives and noticed this had been raised before,
> but the problem is certainly not fixed in the 2.4 testX kernels.
>
> Where 2.2 kernels work fine, v2.4 kernels won't find any devices when
> scanning behind DECchip 21150 PCI bridges. In more detail, the initial
> pci_read_config_dword() in pci_scan_device() returns 0xffffffff (the case
> when a slot is empty).
>
> I have experimented with the different kernel pci options, off and conf2 list
> the devices but the messages sent to the log don't inspire confidence in the
> system stability.
>
> These bridges are quite common, my test example is a dell latitude notebook
> which uses the bridge to handle the docking station. I contacted a few of the
> people originally involved who basically gave up and went back to 2.2
> kernels.

I'll take a look at it.

Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output for both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels?

                                Have a nice fortnight

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