Intel I350 mini-PCIe card (igb) on Mirabox (mvebu / Armada 370)

Willy Tarreau w at 1wt.eu
Sun Apr 6 15:04:34 PDT 2014


On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:57:40PM +0100, Neil Greatorex wrote:
> Good work - I've been doing similar things myself! I can confirm that I 
> see exactly the same thing with similar printks:

Great! A reproduceable bug is always half-resolved :-)

> The physical addresses match those given in the lspci -vvv output

same here.

> (see 
> https://gist.github.com/ngreatorex/9772195). I don't know enough about 
> PCIe, the SoC *or* the Intel card to know if these addresses look correct 
> or even sane! I did wonder if there was some issue due to the fact that 
> the resources for 01:00.0 and 01:00.1 overlap, but I would guess(!?) that 
> it's common in hardware that presents multiple devices.

My understanding and old memories tell me that's OK.

> It is perhaps noteworthy that this is the first access to the hardware for 
> the 2nd port - i.e. there are no successful accesses, other than to enable 
> the hardware, which AFAICT is simply accessing registers on the PCIe 
> controller.

Indeed, I forgot to mention that but you're right, enabling only the
second function leads to an immediate panic as well.

> I've tried playing around with a few things but not discovered 
> anything even close to useful. Hopefully Thomas will be able to debug 
> further when he gets the time.

Yeah, let's hope we have not opened a can of worms!

Willy




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list