Having problem with a sever which has 18 PCI slots to run 18 PCMC IA cards

[David Hinds]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:48:46PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> >        Memory window 0: f8701000-f8702000 (prefetchable)
> >        Memory window 1: f8703000-f8704000
> >        I/O window 0: 0000d000-0000d103
> >        I/O window 1: 0000d200-0000d303
> 
> That's an unfortunate I/O window size (wastes lots of IO space).

I'd say it's a case of bad resource management, since all the bridge
windows seem to be consuming 2X their intended sizes, due to bad
alignment of the upper window bounds.  I don't know if that is the
fault of the kernel or the BIOS.

-- Dave