From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: run BIOS PCI detection before direct
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:38:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441A91A5.3020607@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317000303.13252107@localhost.localdomain>
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.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 0:03 [PATCH] i386: run BIOS PCI detection before direct Dave Hansen
2006-03-17 10:38 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-03-22 13:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 22:08 ` Greg KH
2006-03-22 21:37 ` Andi Kleen
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