Re: [PATCH] i386/x86_64: Force pci=noacpi on HP XW9300

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 20:33, Deguara, Joachim wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jeff@garzik.org] 
> > Sent: 16 May 2006 19:25
> > To: Andi Kleen
> > Cc: Deguara, Joachim; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Linus 
> > Torvalds; Andrew Morton
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/x86_64: Force pci=noacpi on HP XW9300
> > 
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:12, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >>> Did you test that? I had two persons with that 
> > workstation test all 
> > >>> combinations and it worked for them.
> > >> Not yet, it's queued for my next test run.
> > > 
> > > You complained without testing anything? 
> > 
> > When I first got the box, pci=noacpi made mmconfig space go 
> > away, or some other breakage.  If your patch forces that, 
> > then logically that condition should reappear by default.
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> > 
> 
> The fix worked for me.  But as I noted, the lspci output changed and
> going back I see the PCI-X bridge went AWOL, though the the SCSI
> controller (part of that bug) is PCI-X non-bridge anyway.  Also I tested
> this with the SLES kernel which IIRC has mmconfig off by default.  So
> Jeff, I am interested to hear how your testing goes.

But PCI-X reappears when you disable the PCI segmentation in the BIOS
right?

-Andi