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From: thockin@hockin.org
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: scampbell@malone.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI Express or TG3 issue
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:58:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922155854.GA31157@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050923.002548.126141978.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:25:48AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:11:51 -0700, thockin@hockin.org said:
> 
> thockin> This device is claiming that it has a 64-bit base-address
> thockin> which has been programmed by BIOS to be at
> thockin> 0x80000001d0000000.
> 
> thockin> I suspect that the 4 bytes at offset 0x14 want to be 0.  The
> thockin> address 0xd0000000 jives with the rest of your PCI listing.
> 
> thockin> I don't know where that extra 0x80000001 comes from, but it's
> thockin> pretty clearly wrong.  BIOS bug?  I can't see where kernel
> thockin> would have boned that up *that* badly.
> 
> I also have seen same problem on some custom MIPS-based boards which
> do not have BIOS.  Broadcom BCM5751 had garbage in its 64-bit BAR on
> power-up.  So it should not be a BIOS bug.  And I also could not find
> any good place to fixup it at that time.

Well, on a PC (i386 or x86_64) system, that address is almost certainly
going to be below 4G.  You could reguister a quirk to zero the upper half
of that BAR...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21 17:34 FW: PCI Express or TG3 issue Campbell, Shawn
2005-09-21 18:11 ` thockin
2005-09-22 15:25   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2005-09-22 15:58     ` thockin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-21 15:56 Shawn M. Campbell
2005-09-21 17:21 ` thockin
2005-09-21 17:18   ` Martin Mares

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