Comment 16 for bug 1837326

Revision history for this message
Bram Stolk (b-stolk) wrote :

Still present in Ubuntu 21.10

[ 0.602702] platform eisa.0: Probing EISA bus 0
[ 0.603265] platform eisa.0: EISA: Cannot allocate resource for mainboard
[ 0.603837] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 0.604414] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[ 0.604991] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3
[ 0.605567] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[ 0.606142] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[ 0.606716] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6
[ 0.607283] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7
[ 0.607832] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
[ 0.608374] platform eisa.0: EISA: Detected 0 cards

I tried to avoid this by adding to my kernel parameters:

eisa_bus.disable_dev=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

But somehow that did not stop the eisa driver from allocating resources for the slot.

EISA needs to be a module, instead of hard-baked into the kernel!