On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:37 +0200, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:58:24 +0200
> Jan Gukelberger <g.u.g.i@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:21 +0200, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:42:35 +0200
> > > Jan Gukelberger <g.u.g.i@gmx.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > The key problem seem to be the following lines in dmesg:
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> > > > PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:4000@ff9f8000 for device 0000:04:04.0
> > > > skge 0000:04:04.0: cannot obtain PCI resources
> > > > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.0 disabled
> > > > skge: probe of 0000:04:04.0 failed with error -16
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > There is some kind of device conflict, please provide lspci -vvvxx output.
> > 
> > I'm attaching the output of 'lspci -vvvxx' on the working 2.6.20 kernel
> > as well as the output of 'lspci -vvxxx' on 2.6.23-rc5 which I recorded
> > earlier.
> > I you specifically need 'lspci -vvvxx' on 2.6.23-rc5 please drop me a
> > note and I'll reboot quickly.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jan
> 
> All looks in order, on the PCI tables. There is a firewire control just
> above the skge device, perhaps you enabled one of the firewire stacks
> in the configuration? 

I did a quick diff of the respective kernel .config's (this is the
configuration you mean, right?) and haven't found any notable
differences in the firewire options.

>  Perhaps the console (dmesg) output will show some clue.

I'm attaching a diff between dmesg of a working and a non-working boot.
You can find the full dmesg records in my first mail and in the Debian
BTS respectively.

The only thing I can see there is the old  kernel having some problems
with the SATA controller - even though I did never notice any unusual
behaviour apart from these messages:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PCI: Device 0000:02:00.0 not available because of resource collisions
ahci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -22
JMB363: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Device 0000:02:00.0 not available because of resource collisions
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
JMB363: BIOS configuration fixed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Don't know whether this could be related?

Thanks,
Jan