Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:36:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cardbus: revert IO window limit |
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Ar Iau, 2006-06-22 am 00:11 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton: > > > There is something bad happening in there. Presumably, this patch will > > > break the ThinkPad 600x series machines again though. > > > > > > > Possibly not - remember Linus fixed the "hidden resources" problem with > > the PIIX bridge chips. > > Right. The IBM thinkpad probably works (well, at least _that_ one: > there's tons of different Thinkpads, they have different cardbus > controllers, and at least one of them has some other problem). > > However, changing the IO window size just hides the problem on the machine > that breaks this time around, and we should really fix _that_, rather than > hide it (because otherwise it will break again when we do something else > unrelated that just happens to change the order we do things in). >
OK, thanks. All we have on Alessio's machine is "freezes at boot if APM is enabled" (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/16/33). Any suggestions as to how to proceed with that?
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