Re: PCI card initialisation at boot

2007-11-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Matt Domsch wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:46:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: Linux by default uses the BIOS resource assignments. It doesn't know where those came from other than "the BIOS". Slightly tangential, but I'm starting to hear requests to have the OS re-assign resources when it might

Re: PCI card initialisation at boot

2007-11-11 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:46:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Linux by default uses the BIOS resource assignments. It doesn't know > where those came from other than "the BIOS". Slightly tangential, but I'm starting to hear requests to have the OS re-assign resources when it might make better sense.

Re: PCI card initialisation at boot

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I am guessing that the ESCD has been corrupted, and putting a spare > device caused the BIOS to reset the ESCD. In the BIOS, it has been > setup as "Resource allocation by Auto(ESCD)". Quite possibily. It may also be that the card had simply developed a bad connection. > There is another optio

Re: PCI card initialisation at boot

2007-11-11 Thread Andi Kleen
"Keith Chew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My question is: Will setting the BIOS to "Resource allocation by > Manual" prevent the crash from happening in the future? More > specifically, does Linux still depend on ESCD even if the resource > allocation is set to Manual? Linux does not directly u

PCI card initialisation at boot

2007-11-11 Thread Keith Chew
Hi I am looking for someone to help explain my findings, which I have searched the net but could not find any related infomation. We have 40 linux PCs deployed in a mobile environment, so they are subjected to pretty harsh conditions that can cause BIOS corruptions. In one of the units, I notice