Marvell 88E8038 PCI-E controller doesn't appear as device with acpi enabled

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 17 09:13:42 PST 2008


On Monday 17 November 2008 10:30:00 am Daniel Levine wrote:
> On my Acer Aspire 3680-2633, the Marvell ethernet controller, which
> appears like so under Linux lspci:
> 
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038
> PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
> 
> Does not show up at all with acpi enabled - no msk0 in ifconfig -a, no
> device in /dev, nothing. With acpi disabled, it appears and works
> fine. This is the case under both FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.0, as well as
> OpenBSD 4.4 and NetBSD 4.0.1.
> 
> The acpidump output is available here:
> 
> http://www.mediafire.com/?g4zin4s99b1
> 
> If MediaFire isn't cooperating, notify me and I'll upload again somewhere 
else.
> 
> I've also attached the outputs of dmesg with acpi enabled and
> disabled, and the output of 'sysctl hw.acpi'. Hopefully those will be
> of some help.
> 
> Also, a brief note - the reason all the filesystems are showing as
> unclean in dmesg-noacpi.txt is that my (FreeBSD 6.4) system panicked
> when I removed my USB stick. I've heard this was a known bug in beta
> versions of 7.0, but haven't heard of it happening in 6.4; I'm not
> sure if it's that bug again, or just a further result of my ACPI
> messing up.

Your devices are there, they just can't allocate resources.  This is more of a 
FreeBSD bug in that we don't support fully allocating I/O port and memio 
resources for PCI devices from scratch, at least we don't handle allocating 
resources from scratch for devices behind PCI-PCI bridges.

-- 
John Baldwin


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