From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28 1/3] PCI-quirks: Unhide MCH5/6 memory controller configuration device
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:02:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901051302.50225.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105203006.GC26115@rere.qmqm.pl>
On Monday, January 5, 2009 12:30 pm Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Some BIOSes hide 'overflow' device (dev #6) for i82875P/PE chipsets.
> The same happens for i82865P/PE. Add a quirk to enable this device.
> This allows i82875 EDAC driver to bind to chipset's dev #6 and not
> dev #0 as the latter is used by AGP driver.
>
> After testing this patch for couple of days on my laptop (i82856P)
> it looks like something is resetting device 0 (MCH) config register
> 0xF4 to zero and effectively disabling the device again. The delay
> looks random to me. I can easily update the register using
> 'hexedit /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:00.0/config' and see
> correct values in lspci output afterwards. This is probably
> BIOS's fault. This changes nothing as far as i82875P EDAC driver
> is concerned as it has the same assumption that BIOS is well behaved.
>
> In case some really broken BIOS is found, this can be wrapped around
> some new Kconfig #ifdef.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Applied, thanks.
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-23 21:50 [PATCH] pci-quirks: Unhide 'Overflow' device on i828{6,7}5P/PE chipsets Michał Mirosław
2008-12-23 23:35 ` Robert Hancock
2008-12-23 23:54 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-01-01 19:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.28 1/3] PCI-quirks: Unhide MCH5/6 memory controller configuration device Michał Mirosław
2009-01-01 19:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.28 2/3] EDAC: Use 'overflow' device for binding i82875 EDAC driver Michał Mirosław
2009-01-01 19:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.28 3/3] EDAC: Add support for i82865P/PE chipsets Michał Mirosław
2009-01-05 19:20 ` [PATCH 2.6.28 1/3] PCI-quirks: Unhide MCH5/6 memory controller configuration device Jesse Barnes
2009-01-05 20:28 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-01-05 20:30 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-01-05 21:02 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2009-01-06 19:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-01-06 20:21 ` Jesse Barnes
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