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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:12:37 -0700
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: pcic pci attachments merged from current
Message-ID:  <20010816171237.G30807@ted.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200108170009.f7H09NW36246@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:09:23PM -0600
References:  <20010816153437.E30807@ted.isi.edu> <200108150433.f7F4X1W20487@harmony.village.org> <200108161636.f7GGabV27366@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20010816153437.E30807@ted.isi.edu> <200108170009.f7H09NW36246@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:09:23PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20010816153437.E30807@ted.isi.edu> Ted Faber writes:
> : > Something that I noticed on a non-pci notebook is that pccardd is ignoring
>                                   ^^^^^^^
> : > the irq settings in /etc/pccard.conf. It even ignores a "-i 11" on the
> : > commandline. It only "listens" if I do a "-I -i 11" on the commandline.
> : > When it ignores me it always tries to use irq 15, which doesn't work on
> : > my machine. The same machine with a system built on July 4th didn't have
> : > this behaviour. It used the irq settings in /etc/pccard.conf.
> : 
> : I'm seeing this behavior, too, except the lucky winning IRQ is 9, and
> : even with -I -i 11, pccardd won't put the ethernet on IRQ 11.
> :
> : The laptop is a Fujitsu Lifebook E-5120, the pcic reports itself as a
> : <TI PCI-1225 {CI-CardBus Bridge> irq 9 at device 19.0 pci0
> : It also claims to be operating in <PC CardBus (Classic)>
> 
> Right.  This is a pci based notebook.  On PCI notebooks using PCI
> interrupt routing, you lose the ability to pick which interrupt each
> card gets.  The bridge assigns them.  If you didn't do this, then you
> would get interrupt storms.
> 
> Unless the card isn't working, then I'd say there's nothing wrong
> here.

I should have been explicit.  When irq 9 is assigned, the laptop locks
up completely.  Ejecting the card sometimes restores the system,
sometimes not.

It sounds like these assignments are under BIOS control.  I'll have a
look at that.  Other ideas woul dbe helpful.

Thanks.



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