Subject: Re: Vaio cannot attach uhci0 due to no ioport fixup in pcibios?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2000 00:39:00
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:27:51 -0800
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Using a 1.3P kernle with Xmas-is sources, Sony Vaio PCG-3xx's cannot
> attach the USB controller, apparently because they dont est up the io
> port range correctly. The original, uncomitted pcibios patches from
> Japan handled this. The commited code doesn't (or didn't).
>
> Its possible tweaking BIOS Parameters might fix this, but I havent yet
> found a sequence that works.
>
> Should I PR this? ISTR the intent was to get the pcibios code to work
> on all i386es with PCI BIOS, so we can turn it on in GENERIC (and
> INSTALL?) kernels.
The reason I didn't commit the BAR fixup stuff is because it was woefully
incomplete. It certainly wouldn't have handled PCI-PCI bridges properly.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>