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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Intel PCI-E bridge ACPI resources and possibly related SATA unstability problems on ASUS A8Js
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:04:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HA1Se-0002Y3-VQ@flower> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701250142180.14408@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>

gmane.linux.kernel:
> Hi,

Hallo.

> recently I got my hands on an ASUS A8Js notebook (Core 2 Duo T7200,
> Intel 945 PM PCI-E Chipset, for details see attached log). After booting 
> the latest 2.6.20-rc5-git3 kernel (but the same behaviour occurs also with 
> the 2.6.19.2, didn't try any other), some strange behaviour can be 
> observed.

There were disscussions about mmconfig and what nightmare it brought to
PCI(E) configuration in scope of BIOS, chip bugs. Here's (one of) such:
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116007091004503&w=2>

> At first the following messages appear in the log:
>
> ...
> [   40.303154] PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved
> [   40.303157] PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
>
> (not sure whether this is really a problem)

I think it may be the major problem.

____

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25  2:57 Martin Drab
2007-01-25  3:26 ` Martin Drab
2007-01-25 10:04 ` Oleg Verych [this message]
2007-01-25 12:28   ` Martin Drab
2007-01-25 13:58     ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 16:57       ` Martin Drab
2007-01-26 12:23       ` Martin Drab
2007-01-26 15:03         ` Luming Yu
2007-01-26 17:18           ` Martin Drab
     [not found] <fa.PpxpQ7nMZSyaD7q+Ht9cGg0CIiw@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.wqPyXXdyh/mi1huaDG6ytwgWGls@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa./T3sQPFQFuD91GZzkxPLpnq+daI@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.pgpxy1bTTJGfmjQzrCFr6RYyJZ8@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.ZnWRVfns13JT5BT7zPCIOVH11yw@ifi.uio.no>
2007-01-26 14:35         ` Robert Hancock

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