Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Verych <> | Subject | Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2) | Date | Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:27:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2006-10-09, Oleg Verych wrote: > On 2006-10-09, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:31:36 +0200 >> Matthias Hentges <oe@hentges.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> Oops, I forgot the "x" in lspci -vvvx, new dumps are attached. >> >> >> I think I know what the problem is. The PCI access routines to access pci express >> registers (ie reg > 256), only work if using MMCONFIG access. For some reason >> your configuration doesn't want to use/allow that. > > In case you didn't read, here's top of thread about MMCONFIG 4 days ago: ><http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.x86-64.general/1794> > > In short: due to Intel BIOS bug, mmconfig doesn't used in kernel. > And kernel developers mainly do not care much (yet) about drivers, until > vi$ta certified hardware will be in run. > ____
[and, due to my dumb, not copied here Stephen's answer was:]
> Then I would argue that PCI express support is broken in the kernel.
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