Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:39:34 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Josef Moellers <josef.moellers@ts.fujitsu.com> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge Message-ID: <200906090939.34827.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4A2E1A34.2010405@ts.fujitsu.com> References: <4A24D29A.5030604@ts.fujitsu.com> <200906081047.17487.jhb@freebsd.org> <4A2E1A34.2010405@ts.fujitsu.com>
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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. > 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. -- John Baldwin
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