Subject: Re: pcic in CARDBUS?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/09/2000 15:05:45
In message <200007082133.OAA05475@champagne.dsg.stanford.edu>, Jonathan Stone w
rites:
>>Ah the pain and joy of merging. In so doing, I observed that CARDBUS
>>still has pcic's configured. Is it not the case that this causes the
>>same hardware to be probed in pcic-compatibility mode as well as a
>>cardbus device, causing problems?
>
>Yes. This is still the case on the Ricoh bridge used in Sony Vaios.
>ISTR Jason saying it wasn't the case for his Dell.

Cursory examination of dev/pci/pccbb.c suggests that
configuring the pci cbb is supposed to disable the
pcic compatibility; it just doesn't work in this case.

Of course, if I can't fix this I'll throw in a BUGS section
in cbb(4).

--jhawk