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From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: "Luming Yu" <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:25:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a297b360702062125p33c2f932ra61e49e4b1c9439d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3877989d0702062019w5e57471di540404b60f7bdd43@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/7/07, Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > none on the card, a flash or a firmware .. it has a 24c02 EEPROM for
> > vendor information, that's all
>
> Ok, sounds like windows driver can fix the broken EEPROM  on you card.
> Otherwise, I can not explain how windows driver can fix the problem for linux.


I have the windows driver sources for the device, it does _not_ write
anything to the EEPROM under any circumstance.

moreover the EEPROM is write protected in hardware by a jumper. So no
application can write to it, AFAICS

> Anyway, this issue is NOT linux problem. right?
>

I am not very sure about that.

really i am thinking this way .. On booting up windows, it could have
changed some BIOS stuff (written something to NVRAM or something like
that ?).. that's the only possibility that i can see here.

really lost on this one.

regards,
manu

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05  1:09 Manu Abraham
2007-02-05  3:04 ` Luming Yu
2007-02-05  4:16   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-05 17:20   ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  4:55 ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-06  5:03   ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-06  5:33     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-06  6:28       ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  7:04         ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-06  7:13           ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  8:46       ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-06  9:06         ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  9:29           ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 12:21             ` Luming Yu
2007-02-06 12:24               ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 12:56                 ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 12:56                   ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-07  4:19                 ` Luming Yu
2007-02-07  5:25                   ` Manu Abraham [this message]
2007-02-06 11:13         ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 11:52           ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-07  6:58             ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-08  5:26               ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-08  5:46               ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  6:24     ` Greg KH
2007-02-06  5:20   ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06  8:25     ` Grant Grundler
2007-02-06  8:48       ` Manu Abraham

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