[LinuxBIOS] Disabled device help

[Myles Watson]

>>My large device gets disabled somewhere in LinuxBIOS or the kernel. This
>>is the encouraging line from LinuxBIOS telling me that the registers are
>>indeed set correctly.

>>PCI: 05:01.0 18 <- [8000000000 - bfffffffff] prefmem64 

>>Unfortunately, Linux sees something different and fails to allocate this
>>region because it sees it at 00000080-000000bf and that conflicts with
>>other things.

>>Does anyone have a pointer to where I should look for this problem? Has 
>>anyone else had problems with devices larger than 4GB?

>you may be the first lucky person to do this. 

>I assume this is an opteron in 64-bit mode?

That's correct.

Myles