Re: [PATCH] i386: run BIOS PCI detection before direct

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Friday 17 March 2006 11:38, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > from 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 through at least 2.6.16-rc6-mm1 a patch from
> > Andi Kleen, titled
> > 
> >         x86_64-i386-pci-ordering.patch
> > 
> > which is now called:
> > 
> > 	gregkh-pci-pci-give-pci-config-access-initialization-a-defined-ordering.patch
> > 
> > has caused a 4-way PIII Xeon (non-NUMA) to stop detecting its SCSI
> > card.  I believe this is also the issue keeping -mm from booting
> > on "elm3b67" from http://test.kernel.org/. 
> > 
> > The following patch reverts the ordering of the PCI detection code
> > to always run the BIOS initialization, first.  As far as I can
> > tell, this was the original behavior, and it makes my machine boot
> > again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Ran this through the nightly regression suite on the affected machine
> and it boots fine with this patch applied.

I fixed this up my copy of the patch.

Also fixed the warning with CONFIG_ACPI=n

Thanks,

-Andi