Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: PCI resources allocation problem on Toshiba Satellite A40 | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:35:39 +0200 |
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On Friday 14 August 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So the fact that it "worked" for a few kernels was simply due to a > kernel bug, where "pci_claim_resource()" incorrectly allowed the > resource to be inserted into a resource window that wasn't actually its > parent, and a crazy BIOS that did crazy things, together with a chipset > where those crazy things just _happened_ to work because of how > decoding was done.
OK. Thanks for taking a look. I'll happily ignore the error messages from now on. Luckily confirmation that things work correctly when faced with broken BIOSes can be useful too :-)
Cheers, FJP
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