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

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:10:47PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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

Care to send me that copy of the patch so I can forward it on?

thanks,

greg k-h