PCI Adress space collision, boot message

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:58:20PM +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> when I have that added but it also gives an error at the start of the 
> boot up: PCI Address space collision on region 8 of bridge 0000:00:5.3 
> [fe60:fe7f].

FWIW, I was getting a very similar error on boot (same region, even,
IIRC, but I have no idea about the address) on a Dell GX1 until I got
motivated to dig up the latest BIOS and installed it.  Now the same
kernel has nothing to say about colliding PCI spaces.

It may just be a coincidence, but that error sounded to me like a
misconfiguration, and that was what nudged me to ferret out the BIOS
update.  No warranty that your issue will be so easily fixed, of
course.  :-/

Come to think of it, the Inspiron that had seemed allergic to that
mini-pci NIC (only under Windows: three different Linux installs all
just worked <smile>) was cured by getting its BIOS upgraded.  In
compensation it now needs nolapic with Ubuntu's kernel, but on the
whole that's a win...

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