Subject: Re: Sony-505TR laptop
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/29/1999 22:07:46
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:45:50 -0800
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> It didn't work for me, on a pcg-350, with our without the original
> PCIBIOUS stuff, until I excised the `legacy' ISA pcmcia
>
> pcic0 at isa? port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 0x4000
>
>
> If the pcic0 is configured in, the Ricoh cardbus bridge gets attached
> as pcic0, and it doesn't work.
>
> (Yes, there is code which tries to disable the legacy PCIC addreses,
> but it doesn't get run until after the pcic0 at isa has been attached.
> By then, it's far too late).
No, it's NOT too late. It's simply a matter of the code that disables
legacy mode on the Ricoh is broken. It works fine on my Dell, which uses
the TI chip.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>