Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:51:35 +0200 From: Josef Moellers <josef.moellers@ts.fujitsu.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge Message-ID: <4A2E68E7.50907@ts.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <200906090939.34827.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4A24D29A.5030604@ts.fujitsu.com> <200906081047.17487.jhb@freebsd.org> <4A2E1A34.2010405@ts.fujitsu.com> <200906090939.34827.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 4:15:48 am Josef Moellers wrote: > >>> Ok, let me know if it works. Thanks. >>> >> Yepp! Works like a charm. I had been able to boot the original kernel >> with the modified BIOS and apply your patch. >> Then I rebooted with that kernel (on the modified BIOS, i.e. the one >> with the 0 254 255 bus numbers) and it booted OK. Then I flashed the >> BIOS back to a release version (i.e. one with 255 254 0 bus numbers) and >> the patched kernel booted OK and the non-patched kernel (kernel.old) >> crashed because it did not find its root FS. >> > > Woo, thanks for testing. > No problem! Thanks for helping. > >> BTW As I understand it, the 254 and 255 busses are on-chip Nehalem >> busses which provide access to certain chip registers. >> >> Will this make its way into a future release? 8.0? >> > > Yes, it will be in 8.0 and 7.3. Great news, especially the "7.3". Keep up the good work, Josef -- These are my personal views and not those of Fujitsu Technology Solutions! Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FTS) If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett) Company Details: http://de.ts.fujitsu.com/imprint.html
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