Marvell 88E8038 PCI-E controller doesn't appear as device with acpi enabled

[Daniel Levine]

It doesn't work on NetBSD either, though, nor Open, Dragonfly, etc. Is
this bug common to all BSD flavors? Is there any workaround?

On 11/17/08, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 10:30:00 am Daniel Levine wrote:
>> On my Acer Aspire 3680-2633, the Marvell ethernet controller, which
>> appears like so under Linux lspci:
>>
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038
>> PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
>>
>> Does not show up at all with acpi enabled - no msk0 in ifconfig -a, no
>> device in /dev, nothing. With acpi disabled, it appears and works
>> fine. This is the case under both FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.0, as well as
>> OpenBSD 4.4 and NetBSD 4.0.1.
>>
>> The acpidump output is available here:
>>
>> http://www.mediafire.com/?g4zin4s99b1
>>
>> If MediaFire isn't cooperating, notify me and I'll upload again somewhere
> else.
>>
>> I've also attached the outputs of dmesg with acpi enabled and
>> disabled, and the output of 'sysctl hw.acpi'. Hopefully those will be
>> of some help.
>>
>> Also, a brief note - the reason all the filesystems are showing as
>> unclean in dmesg-noacpi.txt is that my (FreeBSD 6.4) system panicked
>> when I removed my USB stick. I've heard this was a known bug in beta
>> versions of 7.0, but haven't heard of it happening in 6.4; I'm not
>> sure if it's that bug again, or just a further result of my ACPI
>> messing up.
>
> Your devices are there, they just can't allocate resources.  This is more of
> a
> FreeBSD bug in that we don't support fully allocating I/O port and memio
> resources for PCI devices from scratch, at least we don't handle allocating
> resources from scratch for devices behind PCI-PCI bridges.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>