Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756984AbXKKQLd (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754886AbXKKQLZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:11:25 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54135 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754437AbXKKQLY (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:11:24 -0500 To: "Keith Chew" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: PCI card initialisation at boot From: Andi Kleen References: <20f65d530711110722k3d2bf658hb44ceaa036b9962c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:11:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20f65d530711110722k3d2bf658hb44ceaa036b9962c@mail.gmail.com> (Keith Chew's message of "Mon\, 12 Nov 2007 04\:22\:15 +1300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 24 "Keith Chew" writes: > > My question is: Will setting the BIOS to "Resource allocation by > Manual" prevent the crash from happening in the future? More > specifically, does Linux still depend on ESCD even if the resource > allocation is set to Manual? Linux does not directly use the ESCD, but it uses configuration coming from the BIOS (like PCI bridge setup or ACPI resources) that might depend on the ESCD depending on your BIOS implementation. You would probably need to ask someone familiar with your BIOS what the ESCD influences in your configuration and what Manual allocation changes exactly. Most likely the real fix would be to add a checksum to it, but only the BIOS can do that. -Andi - 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/