Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:10:49 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel Levine" <dlev89@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell 88E8038 PCI-E controller doesn't appear as device with acpi enabled Message-ID: <200811171610.49614.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a16fb16b0811171020x1cb62800oe21aa1d1269f7bee@mail.gmail.com> References: <a16fb16b0811170730r4695adfay78d57c7f71ec082d@mail.gmail.com> <200811171157.17556.jhb@freebsd.org> <a16fb16b0811171020x1cb62800oe21aa1d1269f7bee@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 17 November 2008 01:20:43 pm Daniel Levine wrote: > It doesn't work on NetBSD either, though, nor Open, Dragonfly, etc. Is > this bug common to all BSD flavors? Is there any workaround? Yes. It's more a missing feature than a bug strictly speaking. It's the same exact problem as PNP OS=YES. Basically, *BSD still depend on the BIOS to do most of the resource allocation for devices. > On 11/17/08, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2008 10:30:00 am Daniel Levine wrote: > >> On my Acer Aspire 3680-2633, the Marvell ethernet controller, which > >> appears like so under Linux lspci: > >> > >> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 > >> PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14) > >> > >> Does not show up at all with acpi enabled - no msk0 in ifconfig -a, no > >> device in /dev, nothing. With acpi disabled, it appears and works > >> fine. This is the case under both FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.0, as well as > >> OpenBSD 4.4 and NetBSD 4.0.1. > >> > >> The acpidump output is available here: > >> > >> http://www.mediafire.com/?g4zin4s99b1 > >> > >> If MediaFire isn't cooperating, notify me and I'll upload again somewhere > > else. > >> > >> I've also attached the outputs of dmesg with acpi enabled and > >> disabled, and the output of 'sysctl hw.acpi'. Hopefully those will be > >> of some help. > >> > >> Also, a brief note - the reason all the filesystems are showing as > >> unclean in dmesg-noacpi.txt is that my (FreeBSD 6.4) system panicked > >> when I removed my USB stick. I've heard this was a known bug in beta > >> versions of 7.0, but haven't heard of it happening in 6.4; I'm not > >> sure if it's that bug again, or just a further result of my ACPI > >> messing up. > > > > Your devices are there, they just can't allocate resources. This is more of > > a > > FreeBSD bug in that we don't support fully allocating I/O port and memio > > resources for PCI devices from scratch, at least we don't handle allocating > > resources from scratch for devices behind PCI-PCI bridges. > > > > -- > > John Baldwin > > > -- John Baldwin
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