On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Myles Watson<[email protected]> wrote: > I tried to disable the onboard graphics on my s2892: > > device pci 6.0 off end > > But that made it probe 6.1 - 6.7. Since the code only checks for > multifunction devices at function 0, all of those responded. So now instead > of disabling my card, it had 7 instances of it. I realize that the card > probably shouldn't have responded to all of those functions, but it probably > doesn't bother checking which function is addressed. > > device pci 6.0 off end > device pci 6.1 off end > device pci 6.2 off end > device pci 6.3 off end > device pci 6.4 off end > device pci 6.5 off end > device pci 6.6 off end > device pci 6.7 off end > > This worked, but it is non-obvious. I wonder what the "right" way would be > to handle this. > > Is there any time when you want to disable function 0 but still have all the > other functions enabled/probed?
Myles, That seems like a defective card but something is strange. Why wouldn't it detect the functions when the first function was enabled? A PCI cards functions don't have to be related to each other. It is legitimate to disable the first function and expect the others to work. Marc -- http://marcjonesconsulting.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
