On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Greg KH wrote: > > > > If someone can come up with a patch that works for everyone, I'll be > > glad to apply it. > > Hmm.. Why exactly does the PCI layer re-locate the IO ports? > > Afaik, ACPI requesting the region shouldn't matter. The > "request_resource()" should still be happy.. > > Ahh. I see the problem. Because the ACPI code allocates the sub-resources, > the request_resource thing is indeed not happy. > > How about this _trivial_ change? Does that fix things for you guys? Can > you send the /proc/ioport output if this works out for you, just so that > we can see? Yes, this works. Please commit. I still have reservations about exposing this device (that firmware owns and we can't possibly synchronize access to), but this is a big improvement over the unusable state w/o this change. Here's my /proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03e8-03ef : serial 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 1000-107f : 0000:00:1f.0 1000-107f : motherboard 1000-1003 : PM1a_EVT_BLK 1004-1005 : PM1a_CNT_BLK 1008-100b : PM_TMR 1010-1015 : ACPI CPU throttle 1020-1020 : PM2_CNT_BLK 1028-102f : GPE0_BLK 1100-113f : 0000:00:1f.0 1100-113f : motherboard 1200-121f : motherboard 1200-121f : 0000:00:1f.3 2000-2fff : PCI Bus #01 2000-20ff : 0000:01:00.0 2000-20ff : radeonfb 3000-30ff : 0000:00:1f.5 3400-34ff : 0000:00:1f.6 3400-34ff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - AC'97 3800-387f : 0000:00:1f.6 3800-387f : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Controller 3880-38bf : 0000:00:1f.5 38c0-38df : 0000:00:1d.0 38c0-38df : uhci_hcd 38e0-38ff : 0000:00:1d.1 38e0-38ff : uhci_hcd 3c00-3c1f : 0000:00:1d.2 3c00-3c1f : uhci_hcd 3c20-3c2f : 0000:00:1f.1 3c20-3c27 : ide0 3c28-3c2f : ide1 4000-40ff : PCI CardBus #03 4400-44ff : PCI CardBus #03 4800-48ff : PCI CardBus #07 4c00-4cff : PCI CardBus #07 5000-50ff : PCI CardBus #0b 5400-54ff : PCI CardBus #0b Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab