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SubjectRe: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:49:28AM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Le lundi 01 ao??t 2005 ?? 16:37 +0200, Stelian Pop a ??crit :
>
> > > Also, it looks like sonypi really is pretty nasty to probe for, so it's
> > > not enough to just say "oh, it's a sony VAIO, let's reserve that region".
> > > Otherwise I'd just suggest adding a "dmi_check_system()" table to
> > > arch/i386/pci/i386.c, at the top of "pcibios_assign_resources()", and
> > > then you could just allocate things based on DMI information.
>
> > Since every Vaio laptop out there seems indeed to use only the first IO
> > port range in the list, we can de-nastyify the probe. And if we don't
> > even bother to check for Type1 vs. Type2 devices and we reserve both,
> > then it may be acceptable to do the above.
> >
> > See the attached patch below which does just that. This has NOT been
> > tested (only compile-tested), and moreover it has a high breakage
> > probability in case some Vaios cannot live with the fixed ioport choice.
> >
> > Note that this patch will conflict with the recent Eric's one (added in
> > CC:), he may want to rediff his Type3 changes in case this patch gets
> > in.
>
> I had no feedback at all on the patch so I have no idea if this will go
> in or not, but since Eric's patch was accepted into -mm I rediffed the
> patch in order to ease the testing (in case someone is willing to test
> it).

Does not work on -rc4-mm1. The IO-ports pre-reserved message appears,
though. The 2 io-regions are still located under the "CardBus #03"
device. Re-Applying
"revert-gregkh-pci-pci-assign-unassigned-resources.patch" makes it
work again.

--
Manuel Lauss
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