Re: pci-express hotplug

[Mark Lord]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:06:20PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get pci-express hotplug working in a box here. I don't
> > > really care about the hotplug aspect, I just want the darn pci-e slots
> > > that are designated hotplug slots to actually WORK. When I load pciehp,
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > pciehp 0000:00:05.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 340c ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
> > > pciehp 0000:00:05.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > pciehp 0000:00:07.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 340e ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
> > > pciehp 0000:00:07.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded
> > > Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> > > pciehp 0000:80:07.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 340e ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
> > > pciehp 0000:80:07.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded
> > > pciehp 0000:80:09.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 3410 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
> > > pciehp 0000:80:09.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded
> > > pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
> > >
> > > and the devices in the hotplug slots stay off. Is this an ACPI/bios
> > > issue? How can I debug this?
> > Can you try the acpiphp driver instead?  That's usually the driver you
> > want to use for "modern" systems (i.e. anything made in the past 5
> > years.)
>
> I should have mentioned that I tried that too. It doesn't complain, but
> I don't see my cards anywhere afterwards. I'm a hotplug newbie, do I
> need to do anything else?

Tried this yet:

  options pciehp pciehp_force=1

??
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