Re: Help: DGE-560T not recognized by Linux

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 17:20, Brian Hall wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:04:41 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:35:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > The problem can also be caused by buggy BIOS's that don't report
> > > proper values for mmconfig space. There is some code in mmconfig.c
> > > that tries to handle that. It might not handle what ever your
> > > system is reporting. Andi Kleen seems to be the last person
> > > involved and might be able to help.
> > > 
> > > It would be useful to add some printk's to mmconfig to dump out the
> > > table after it discovers the table.
> > 
> > Andi has a follow-on patch at:
> > 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-03-pci/pci-give-pci-config-access-initialization-a-defined-ordering.patch
> > that should take care of these kinds of mmconfig issues by ordering
> > the pci config accessors properly.
> > 
> > Can you test this patch out to see if it fixes this problem on your
> > machine?
> 
> I applied this patch to 2.6.15-ck4 and 2.6.14-rc4, in both cases the
> compilation fails the same way:

The patch is for 2.6.16-rc3, not 2.6.15 or earlier prehistory. In general
we only care about the latest kernels on these lists.

-Andi