Attansic L1e Gigabit Ethernet driver support

[Attilio Rao]

2009/6/7  <francklarchange at free.fr>:
>
> I'm sorry, I actually have the same problem than in thread "ACPI problem with
> new acer aspire 6930G", I misread the logs and didn't realized that acpi was the
> problem, here is my dmesg :
>
> ale0: <Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci9
> ale0: 0x40000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff).
> ale0: cannot allocate memory resources.
> device_attach: ale0 attach returned 6

The problem is that some some buggy BIOS do force ACPI to clobber the
start/ending memory regions of some PCI bridges to 0/0 then the PCI
bridges cannot request 0/0xfff... memory ranges. I would bet ale is
the only device linked to this specific PCI bridge.
A way to solve this would be jhb's multipass mechanism to be completed
with resources discovering&allocation mechanism.

Shortly: I don't expect this fixed in the near term.

Thanks,
Attilio


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