Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965747AbXAYJz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:55:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965750AbXAYJz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:55:29 -0500 Received: from raven.upol.cz ([158.194.120.4]:36603 "EHLO raven.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965747AbXAYJz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:55:29 -0500 To: Martin Drab Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Intel PCI-E bridge ACPI resources and possibly related SATA unstability problems on ASUS A8Js Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department. In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:04:04 +0000 Message-Id: From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 31 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: > 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. ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/