[bugme-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org: [Bug 7306] Yenta-socket causes oops on insertion of any PCMCIA card]

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Wed Jul 30 04:28:19 EST 2008


Ben, Paul,

any ideas?

Best,
	Dominik

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:44AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on an Apple Powerbook G3 (Lombard) with a PPC 740 running at 333 MHz, the
> PCI host bridge is condigured to allow "downstream" devices to use iomem
> 
> 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff
> 
> However, when using it for PCMCIA purposes, there's a machine check. Any
> ideas on why this PCI host bridge is mis-configured, and how to resolve this
> issue (besides adding reserved=0xfd000000,0xffffff as kernel boot option)?
> 
> Best,
> 	Dominik
> 
> 
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> Subject: [Bug 7306] Yenta-socket causes oops on insertion of any PCMCIA card
> To: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org
> From: bugme-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:45:44 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7306
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Comment #17 from linux at brodo.de  2008-07-17 01:45 -------
> Now this contains interesting information:
> 
> pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 
> 
> means the PCI host bridge is configured to allow "downstream" devices to use
> this memory area. However, when the PCMCIA socket tries to do so, you get the
> machine check. So my question would be to the powerpc folks: why is the PCI
> host bridge configured this way, even if this memory area is not usable?
> 
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