On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:14:46PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> ... >> Might mention this to jhb@ to see if it's related to the SMBus changes >> made 1.5 years ago: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/alpm.c >> > > Thanks for the pointers. The other reports sound like duplicate reports > of the same issue. > > I'm not sure that backing out the last change is going to help. The BIOS > has generally set up the I/O resource before FreeBSD boots; the > bus_set_resource() call might only be useful in those cases where that > hasn't happened. > In any event, in alpm_attach(), the rman is going to notice that the bus > space is already allocated by acpi(4), and will balk. > > I'm sure there has been some kind of override mechanism in place for > certain other drivers; but they seem to boil down to using an ACPI > attachment of some kind, which won't work here as alpm(4) is a PCI > function and needs to attach to the pcib parent. > > It would be really, really useful to have working SMBus drivers right > now on a machine I can actually touch...
Interesting timing -- Toshikazu Kaho just reported the same issue with alpm(4) today: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/044989.html I've CC'd him, as he's probably unaware of this already-existing thread. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
