Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764213AbXEURiU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 13:38:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756752AbXEURiN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 13:38:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([207.189.120.12]:56604 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756684AbXEURiL (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 13:38:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Mike Houston Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2 Message-ID: <20070521103755.51b954e1@freepuppy> In-Reply-To: <20070521131055.0017404f.mikeserv@bmts.com> References: <20070520170506.814a38d9.mikeserv@bmts.com> <20070521084549.61a1aa71@freepuppy> <20070521131055.0017404f.mikeserv@bmts.com> Organization: Linux Foundation X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1570 Lines: 36 On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a > > sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and > > configurations, I made the decision not to enforce restrictions in > > the driver. > > >> May 20 15:57:48 cramit kernel: sky2 0000:04:00.0: v1.14 addr > >> 0xf8000000 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 2 > > Thank you for your answer. I was half wondering if that was the case > after staring at those log messages several more times. I don't > understand hardware at the low level but got thinking maybe interrupt > routing issue. There's an Nvidia PCI Express card in there that gets > IRQ 16, though it was not initialized by a driver at the time. (plain > old VGA console after fresh cold boot... no framebuffer, no X, no > nvidia module). I guess some things don't share well. > > It works well in that other OS that came with the hardware, but > that's beside the point. It is some low level PCI Express related stuff, try latest BIOS (F9) and if that doesn't help there is a EEPROM update from Gigabyte for the Marvell hardware that might help. -- Stephen Hemminger - 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/