From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:23 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: 2.6.25-mm1: Failing to probe IDE interface Message-ID: <20080430111622.GB10831@csn.ul.ie> References: <20080417160331.b4729f0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080429154957.GA19148@csn.ul.ie> <20080429165840.GA24125@csn.ul.ie> <200804292337.57874.bzolnier@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804292337.57874.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, gregkh@suse.de List-ID: On (29/04/08 23:37), Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz didst pronounce: > > > > > > The third patch that needed reverting was > > gregkh-pci-pci-clean-up-resource-alignment-management.patch (owners added > > to cc). The relevant hint in the a diff between a broken and working bootlog was; > > > > system 00:09: ioport range 0x15e0-0x15ef has been reserved > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 7 [100:1ff] (flags 100) of 0000:00:02.0 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 8 [100:1ff] (flags 100) of 0000:00:02.0 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 9 [4000000:7ffffff] (flags 1200) of 0000:00:02.0 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 10 [4000000:7ffffff] (flags 200) of 0000:00:02.0 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 7 [100:1ff] (flags 100) of 0000:00:02.1 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 8 [100:1ff] (flags 100) of 0000:00:02.1 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 9 [4000000:7ffffff] (flags 1200) of 0000:00:02.1 > > + PCI: bogus alignment of resource 10 [4000000:7ffffff] (flags 200) of 0000:00:02.1 > > > > With the resource alignment patch and the two IDE patches reverted, the > > laptop is able to boot. > > Thanks for tracking it down. > > Hmm, it seems that the above patch was merged a week ago: > > commit bda0c0afa7a694bb1459fd023515aca681e4d79a > Merge: 904e0ab... af40b48... > Author: Linus Torvalds > Date: Mon Apr 21 15:58:35 2008 -0700 > > Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 > ... > PCI: clean up resource alignment management > ... > > but it could be that the issue has been already fixed in git tree > (could you verify it please?). > Latest git boots on the laptop so somewhere along the line, it got fixed. > BTW according to lspci output you should be able to use piix driver > instead of ide_generic on this laptop. > I know but the config is a bit minimal for faster building as it's only intended for sniff-testing patches. Thanks for the help. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org