Re: Kernel 2.4.21

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> The second disfunctional thing in 2.4.21 is the Permedia2-PCI.
> 
> Log from 2.4.18, where P2-PCI was working:
> ---->8----
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware                                 
> Memory resource not set for host bridge 0                 
> apus_pcibios_fixup: PCI mem resource requested            
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of PCI bridge 0    
> PCI: resource is e0000000..fffc0000 (200), parent c01a2c2c
> PCI:00:01.0: Resource 0: ef000000-ef01ffff (f=200)        
> PCI:00:01.0: Resource 1: e0000000-e07fffff (f=200)        
> PCI:00:01.0: Resource 2: e1000000-e17fffff (f=200)        
> PCI: Switching off ROM of 00:01.0                         
> ---->8----
> 
> Same part from 2.4.21 - P2-PCI is not working:
> ---->8----
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware                                        
> Memory resource not set for host bridge 0                        
> apus_pcibios_fixup: PCI mem resource requested                   
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:01.0         
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:01.0         
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 00:01.0         
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(fffe0000-fffc0000) for 00:01.0
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 1(0-7fffff) for 00:01.0         
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 2(0-7fffff) for 00:01.0         
> ---->8----
> 
> I looked though the code, but didn't find anything suspicious. The only
> difference is that 2.4.21 starts allocating from resource region 0, while
> 2.4.18 started allocaction from resource region 1. Could it be a problem?
> Where could I change it?

Check which resource is used as the parent resource. Probably the PCI resources
don't lie completely within the passed parent.

> And the last, but strange thing: in 2.4.21 the tilda ("~") key is not
> working. It looks like that this key don't generate any code?? Any ideas?

No idea. But note that the scancode/keycode for ~ on Amiga is 0, which may be
handled specially somewhere (PC keyboards don't have keycode 0). BTW, did you
enable the new input subsystem?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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