Re: Weird PCI problem

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 11 May 1999 23:27:39 +0200


Hello!

> Using Cyctest, a diagnostics software from Cyclades.
> In NT, it was tested using the NT driver.
>
> Interestingly enough, the NT Diagnostics indicates that the _same_
> resource Linux tries to allocate (i.e., f9e00000-f9efffff) are being
> allocated by NT, just in the right way.

It's quite possible both the DOS diag program and the NT driver
completely ignore the region type bit.

If it turns out it's a real hardware bug, I can add it to the work-around
table in the kernel to trick the kernel that it's really a memory region ;)

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"We all live in a yellow subroutine."

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