Re: No PCI-X / PCI-E cards ...

Xavier Bestel
2009-12-23T15:17:18Z

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 11:30 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 14:43 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > [ 0.184098] pci 0000:00:1c.0: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
> >
> > When does this message appear? Does it matter if the PCIe card is
> > installed or not? This 0000:00:1c.0 device is:
> >
> > > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
> >
> > so it might be relevant.
> >
> > Did you try all the PCIe slots?
>
> I tried another slot, and it gave the same error:
> [ 0.203279] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> [ 0.203279] pci 0000:00:1c.0: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
>
> And the card still isn't visible through lspci.
>
> How comes the kernel can't see that card ?

It looks like if the board has been flashed with the wrong bios (the
dmidecode info isn't consistent with what I see on the board).
Is there a way to workaround that in the kernel ?

Xav