Failure to get past a PCI bridge

[Josef Moellers]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
>   
No problem! Thanks for helping.
>   
>> 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.

Great news, especially the "7.3".

Keep up the good work,

Josef

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