Re: PCMCIA setting

[Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:26:13PM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:26:31PM +0900, YAMAGATA Hiroo wrote:
> 
> > Obviously your PCMCIA card is not properly recognized.
> 
> Nope.  The error isn't coming from the PCMCIA layer -- it's the
> PCI layer.  The card is actually cardbus, which is treated as another 
> PCI bus from the kernel point of view.
> 
> The PCI interrupt router (which I assume is a PIIX4 or suchlike) doesn't look
> like it was set up properly by the BIOS -- this is unfortunately pretty damned
> common with laptops.  Typically what the OS does is reassign i/o addresses
> and IRQ settings anyway (in fact, that's why most BIOS have the "PnP OS"
> option -- if it's turned on, the BIOS doesn't even bother to try).
> 
> The error message actually contained a workaround, but it's a bad workaround.
> I don't have a source tree here, so I can't give the correct kernel
> compile options right now.
CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT I think. (Yes, I checked under 2.4.1, No NetBSD still does
not have stable SMP support.)

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