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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 20:28 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Ben, Paul,
> 
> any ideas?

Strange. Paul has a lombard, so if he can bring it to the office, I'll
have a look. Paul, bring some legacy PCMCIA cards too if you have any,
I'm not sure I do (though I think we have one or two somewhere in the
lab).

Cheers,
Ben.

> 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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