FW: TI1510 probelm - can you help direct me?

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri May 7 09:41:13 BST 2004


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:28:45PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > In my case, I have found that the I/O window at 0x4000-0x40ff should not
> > be used by cardbus.  It can be achieved by adding "reserve=0x4000,0x100"
> > to the kernel command line.
> 
> I enabled CONFIG_PNPBIOS in the kernel and found what uses that range.
> >From lspnp output (lspnp utility is included with pcmcia-cs):
> 
> 0a PNP0a03 bridge controller: PCI
>         io 0x0294-0x0297
>         io 0x04d0-0x04d1
>         io 0x0cf8-0x0cff
>         io 0x0480-0x048f
>         io 0x4000-0x40f7
> 
> CONFIG_PNPBIOS wasn't enabled because it was unavailable without
> CONFIG_ISA defined.  And CONFIG_ISA wasn't defined because I assumed from
> the help that it's responsible only for ISA cards: "Find out whether you
> have ISA slots on your motherboard."

I think this should be sent to lkml for further discussion.  I know that
some vendors are presently planning to ship kernels without PNPBIOS
support, and this may change their minds (along with fixing PNPBIOS to
allocate resources of active devices.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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