On Oct 15, Jason Thorpe wrote
> pci_mode_detect() is misprobing the configuration mode.  You can either
> patch the binary (pci_mode is the variable) or build a kernel with
> "options PCI_CONF_MODE=n" where n is 1 or 2.

Thanks to all who anserwed. forcing PCI_CONF_MODE to 1 did it.
(It even found the thunderland ethernet adapter :)

> 
> Now that the BIOS trampoline has been generalized a bit, pci_mode_detect()
> should probably be changed to ask the PCI BIOS.

Would be nice if this can avoid this kind of problem. But this may introduce
new problems due to broken PCI biosses ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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