Re: [PATCH] i386: run BIOS PCI detection before direct

[Andy Whitcroft]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> from 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 through at least 2.6.16-rc6-mm1 a patch from
> Andi Kleen, titled
> 
>         x86_64-i386-pci-ordering.patch
> 
> which is now called:
> 
> 	gregkh-pci-pci-give-pci-config-access-initialization-a-defined-ordering.patch
> 
> has caused a 4-way PIII Xeon (non-NUMA) to stop detecting its SCSI
> card.  I believe this is also the issue keeping -mm from booting
> on "elm3b67" from http://test.kernel.org/. 
> 
> The following patch reverts the ordering of the PCI detection code
> to always run the BIOS initialization, first.  As far as I can
> tell, this was the original behavior, and it makes my machine boot
> again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ran this through the nightly regression suite on the affected machine
and it boots fine with this patch applied.

-apw
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