Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:45:54 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200906121445.54731.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBCC7074@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> References: <20090610174211.GA78796@crodrigues.org> <200906120838.06973.jhb@freebsd.org> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBCC7074@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
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On Friday 12 June 2009 1:47:41 pm David Christensen wrote: > > > > The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the > > > > adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS. Since it's only > > requesting > > > > 64KB it sounds like an OS issue. If you remove any other PCI > > > > devices in the system does the bge driver load? > > > > > > I cannot remove any devices from the system. > > > The problem is occurring on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with no > > > external devices plugged into it. > > > > You can try disabling ACPI. On some machines ACPI > > initialization inexpicably clears the I/O windows in certain > > PCI-PCI bridges and FreeBSD does not cope well with this case. > > Does that apply to memory windows too? The device doesn't support > legacy I/O, only memory mapped registers. Yes, I meant I/O in a more generic I/O resource sense including both I/O ports and memio. -- John Baldwin
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