On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:27:03PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:

 > A while back, I had to apply a weird kernel patch which produced output
 > like:
 > 
 > pciide0: Changing IO from 0x100e0 to 0x8000
 > pciide0: Changing IO from 0x100d0 to 0x8010
 > pciide0: Changing IO from 0x100c0 to 0x8020
 > pciide0: Changing IO from 0x100b0 to 0x8030
 > pciide0: Changing IO from 0x10080 to 0x8040
 > 
 > for my PC164 alpha to handle a Promise Ultra33 card.  Is this still likely
 > to matter?

Probably ... the problem is the card is not decoding PCI addresses properly,
and the firmware is assigning addresses to it which it can't cope with.

We should probably cram some sort of patch into the tree to deal with
this case.

Grumble, PC hardware manufacturers annoy me.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>