In some modern machine the BIOS code for PCIBIOS seems to be broken.
Presumably this is because Windoze uses ACPI these days.  I couldn't get
interrupts to work on my Sony SRX77 until I used ACPI to fix them up.
Now, our ACPI support is less than stellar so I can't suspend&resume. :(
But it's now worse than with APM, because the APM support in BIOS was
broken too. :(

    -- Lennart

Peter Seebach wrote:

>So, I'm trying to debug my mom's laptop...  And I still can't get
>the @#!$ thing to use etiher cbb or pcic interfaces.  In both cases,
>the driver refuses to attach to the device, claiming that the
>interrupt is not configured.  (Rather, the pcic just aborts and
>says "not configured"; cbb says "unconfigured interrupt".)  I've
>tried nearly every combination of the PCIBIOS options, and nothing
>happens; no change at all, it just plain doesn't think it has an
>interrupt.  Is this extra-tough because cbb/pcic devices need to
>do some extra magic to handle interrupts from devices in them or
>something?
>
>Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.  Both drivers just plain refuse to
>attach, and as such, no pcmcia or cardbus cards can be used - an annoyance at
>the best of times.
>
>I can arrange for arbitrarily verbose boot messages, but I think the situation
>can be summed up with "VIA chipset, BIOS has no useful settings".  If anyone
>else has seen similar problems and eventually beaten them, I'd love to know
>about it.
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