Failure to get past a PCI bridge

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sat May 30 15:30:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:00 +0200 Josef Moellers <josef.moellers at ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on a pretty new system (a Fujitsu 
 > RX300S5).
 > The first obstacle was the fact that while the system has an 
 > AT-Keyboard-Controller, it ist not used (keyboard and mouse are 
 > connected via USB) and I have found that I can get past that by specifying
 > 
 > set hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1
 > set hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1
 > 
 > The install kernel then boots properly and reaches the "Country Selection".
 > At that point, no keyboard input is accepted. An optical mouse is off, 
 > so I assume the keyboard to be off, too.
 > 
 > I have hooked up a serial connection to log the kernel's output (some 
 > 1000+ lines):
 > 
 > set boot_serial=1
 > set boot_verbose=1
 > set boot_multicons=1
 > set console="comconsole vidconsole"
 > 
 > The following lines make me wonder if the kernel fails to get past PCI 
 > bridges and this can't reach the UHCI controllers:
 > 
 > pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
 > pcib0: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \_SB_.CPU0 - 
 > AE_NOT_FOUND
 > :
 > pcib1: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
 > pcib1: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \_SB_.CPU1 - 
 > AE_NOT_FOUND
 > :
 > pcib2: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
 > pcib2: couldn't find _ADR
 > pcib2: trying bus number 2
 > pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
 > pci2: domain=0, physical bus=2
 > 
 > I talked to the guy who does the BIOS for the machine and he says that 
 > it makes no sense for the kernel to try and find the _PRT for \_SB_.CPU0 
 > or \_SB_.CPU1!
 > 
 > Can anyone help? I haven't been using FreeBSD since 4.2 and haven't dug 
 > through deep kernel functions for quite some time.

Not directly, but you may do better posting that to the acpi at freebsd.org 
list.  See archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/

cheers, Ian


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