Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Are these all the read/write bits in the configuration area?

No, there are more of them. Most bytes in config space are rw, except
the first four.


> > Should I conclude that someone zeroed this area?

No, because there are still valid bytes. Especially the first byte in
the BAR being non-zero (maybe even unchanged) is peculiar.


> Yeah well. I'm not sure. It _looks_ like someone completely cut the
> physical power line to the card and it reset its complete PCI
> config.

PCIe maps config space into MMIO IIRC. It might be clobbered that
way.


> So well, X does poke with the PCI devices. But as you said it also
> happens if X doesn't run, I'd rule that out.

Agree.


> But I would not rule out a fucked BIOS, yet.

Possibly.


> Does the BIOS have any powersave options and/or spread-spectrum
> options for the PCI-bus? Can you try to turn them all off?

Being a HP I don't expect there are many options in the BIOS. :\


> > In case the kernel memory diagnostics don't help, is there any
> > way to trap writes to the configuration registers?
> 
> Well, if we have random memory corruption, that can hit memory and MMIO.
> It doesn't hurt to turn on all debugging options. Often you get some hint
> by doing so.

I hope this will give some more info. I think it will.


//Peter
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