migrate VIA vt5426 to PCChip M787CL(not M787CL+)

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Nov 4 21:01:01 CET 2003


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 riskin at esinosoft.com wrote:

> After I migrated VIA vt5426 to new mainboard(PCChips M787CL,not M787CL+:
> NB is VT8601,SB is VT82C686B),when probing PCI devices,the kernel
> halted.So is there any option in LinuxBIOS need to be configed to avoid
> the kernel halt? But the kernel can work well on PCChips M/B bios.

This is an old bug with the chipset. I think we may still have a patch for 
it. If linux scans any devfn above (I think) 0x40, the chipset locks up. 

Sorry.

ron




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