Re: "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region" messages at boot

[Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>]

"D. Sen" <dsen@homemail.com> writes:

> I am getting these messages during bootup time on an IBM Thinkpad T30:
> 
> Jul 11 17:17:24 calliope kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region
> 0 of device 02:00.0
> Jul 11 17:17:24 calliope kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region
> 0 of device 02:00.1

I had a similar problem on my notebook, but this patch seems to fix
it:

--- linux/drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c.orig	Mon Jul 15 12:40:54 2002
+++ linux/drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c	Mon Jul 15 12:40:39 2002
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@
 		return;
 	}
 
-	align = size = 4*1024*1024;
+	align = size = 128*1024;
 	min = PCIBIOS_MIN_MEM; max = ~0U;
 	if (type & IORESOURCE_IO) {
 		align = 1024;

I have no idea if this is the right thing to do. I found the
suggestion in an earlier message from Andreas Bombe.

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