Re: The change "PCI: assign ioapic resource at hotplug" breaks my system

[Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>]

    Kenji> The cause of this problem might be an wrong assumption that
    Kenji> the 'start' member of resource structure for ioapic device
    Kenji> has non-zero value if the resources are assigned by
    Kenji> firmware. The 'start' member of ioapic device seems not to
    Kenji> be set even though the resources were actually assigned to
    Kenji> ioapic devices by firmware.

    Kenji> I made a patch to fix this problem against
    Kenji> 2.6.18-git18. This patch checks command register instead of
    Kenji> checking 'start' member to see if the ioapic is already
    Kenji> enabled by firmware. Unfortunately, I don't have any system
    Kenji> to reproduce this problem. Could you please try it and let
    Kenji> me know whether the problem is fixed? If the patch below
    Kenji> fixes the problem, I'll resend it with description and
    Kenji> Signed-off-by.

Yes, applying this patch makes everything work on the same SuperMicro
motherboard that breaks with Linus's current tree.  Assuming this
doesn't break anything else, I think this should go upstream.

Thanks,
  Roland
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