Problem to initialize devices behind a PCI-PCMCIA bridge

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Mon Oct 19 03:52:55 EDT 2009


Hey,

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:49:30PM +0200, Eric Trinh wrote:
> What's going wrong?

The BIOS doesn't assign the "parent" PCI-PCI bridge any resources which
could be used by the Yenta bridge:

> [   12.068501] yenta_cardbus 0000:04:01.0: CardBus bridge found [0000:0000]
> [   12.068518] yenta_cardbus 0000:04:01.0: no resource of type 100 available, trying to continue...
> [   12.068522] yenta_cardbus 0000:04:01.0: no resource of type 100 available, trying to continue...
...
> [   12.210712] yenta_cardbus 0000:04:01.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd8100000 - 0xd81fffff
> [   12.210715] yenta_cardbus 0000:04:01.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff
> [   13.304417] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> [   13.686817] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xfffff
> [   13.686829] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: excluding 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
> [   13.686838] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
> [   13.686847] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe  0xd8100000-0xd81fffff: excluding 0xd8100000-0xd810ffff 0xd8120000-0xd813ffff
> [   13.693915] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xdc000000-0xdfffffff: excluding 0xdc000000-0xdfffffff
> [   13.694202] pcmcia 0.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
> [   14.410587] serial_cs: no usable port range found, giving up
> [   14.410592] serial_cs 0.0: RequestIO : No card present

Not even the "default" resources which usually work on a x86 system seem to
be available here... So: please send us the output of /proc/iomem and
/proc/ioports. Also, you might check whether a BIOS update is available.

Best,
	Dominik



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