Re: panic: iomem allocation failure

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:20:56PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> It looks like the hardware was in a bogus state. Booting Linux one time
> made NetBSD boot again. I have no idea how Linux cured the hardware.
> 
> snippet of pcictl dump of bge0:
> 
>     Base address register at 0x10
>       type: 64-bit nonprefetchable memory
>       base: 0x00000000d8410000, not sized
>     Base address register at 0x18
>       type: 64-bit nonprefetchable memory
>       base: 0x00000000d8400000, not sized

So it looks like the base address for these memory-mapped registers is
on 64bits. I guess they could hold a value above 4Gb then.
But I would expect the BIOS to set it up under the 4Gb limit, or
32bit OSes wouldn't work ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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