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From: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI bridge missing
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:17:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609290017.34412.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159485255.13029.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:39, you wrote:
>    Anyway, maybe you haven't cold booted the machine and could try that?

It's been cold-booted a few times, though I can't guarantee that for each 
kernel I tried.

On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:14, Alan Cox wrote: 
> Ar Iau, 2006-09-28 am 16:24 -0500, ysgrifennodd Luke-Jr:
> > However, this bridge is completely ignored and unseen by Linux. It does
> > not show up in lspci or dmesg (as far as I can tell) at all. The
> > daughterboard is plugged in, and the PCI cards on it are powered.
>
> lspci -vvxxx would be interesting

Will do tomorrow.

> Linux on PC assumes the BIOS did the work needed 

pci=nobios doesn't bypass that assumption? (I tried that too)

> so if there is some custom "enabler" driver in the Windows for it that might
> explain problems.

Some old Debian (2.2) manual at least implied it worked at one point. That's 
where I compared the lspci from. So this would be a regression, a hardware 
failure, or a misconfiguration.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28 21:24 PCI bridge missing Luke-Jr
2006-09-28 21:39 ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-28 21:52 ` Mark Felder
2006-09-28 23:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-29  0:17   ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2006-09-29 11:36     ` Mark Brown
2006-09-29 17:28   ` Luke-Jr
2006-09-29 18:18     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-29 17:57       ` Luke-Jr
2006-09-29 18:53       ` Luke-Jr

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