Latest paulus.git PCI broken on mpc8540?

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 16 15:37:36 EST 2007


On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I try to use the latest Linux-2.6.24-rc2-ge6a5c27f from paulus.git
> for my mpc8540ads compatible board.
>
> $ dmesg contains some nasty messages, which look like something is  
> wrong.
>
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:14.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 0000:00:14.0

this isn't really an error.  Its more of a warning, the kernel will  
try and allocate these later and I'm guessing based on what you are  
seeing it succeeded.

Benh, can we possibly change these messages in pci_32.c?

- k



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