Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:55:28PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> ...
> > > 	Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> > > 	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR+
> > > 	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size 0c
> > > 	BIST is running
> > 
> > BIST is required to complete in 2 seconds. Either with success or failure.
> > I expect BIOS to have complained before launching grub/lilo.
> 
> Gregkh,
> I just realized linux-pci bus scan should ignore devices (print a warning)
> which have BIST set.  Want a patch for this?
> 
> Slight risk some previously "working" device which violates the
> spec might get ignored...but I hope there aren't too many of those.

Should we wait two seconds before declaring the device dead?  To see whether
it will come back?
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