Subject: Re: isa bus already seen
To: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <fessel@detemobil.de>
From: None <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/27/1998 11:28:41
fessel@detemobil.de said:
> When my thinkpads are attached to a docking station (SelectaDock III)
> they  won't come up, 1.3H will panic with something like "isa bus
> already seen"  after having probed all devices on all busses just
> fine.  It looks like there  probably is a separate isa bus in the
> docking station attached via a pci  bridge. 

Watch the pci autoconfiguration for multiple
PCI-ISA bridges (pcib).
Such a failure was reported by John Kohl (iirc).
We should either detect whether one of the bridges
is disabled somehow or silently ignore the second one
in pcibattach() or pcib_callback().

best regards
Matthias