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SubjectRe: Weird PCI problem
Hello!

> Finally I'm able to come back to the discussion of this problem. Now it's
> showing up on a Dell PowerEdge 1300 (a pretty new system, I must say ...),
> and the information for the "failing" system comes from this PowerEdge.
>
> Just to refresh your minds, the problem is that a PLX9080-based PCI board
> has an I/O address assigned to it when it actually requested a 32-bit
> memory address (more specifically, the PCI Base Address 2).

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem -- the lowest bit of the base
address register (which says whether it's a memory region or an I/O
region) must be hard-wired and thus not changeable by the software.
[PCI specs, section 6.2.5.1]

So it's either the card having the region type bit erroneously writeable
or some hardware glitch causing the bit to be misread (highly improbable).
You could try `setpci -H1 -s 02:09.0 18.l=f0000000 18.l' to test the
first possibility.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"God doesn't play dice." -- Albert Einstein

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