Re: [coreboot] What does "!! Resource didn't fit !!" mean?

[Marc Jones]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Alex G.  wrote:
> I'm seeing people on IRC hit this:
>
> !! Resource didn't fit !!
>   aligned base 400 size 8 limit 200
>   407 needs to be <= 200 (limit)
>   PCI: 00:07.0 18 *  [0x2868 - 0x286f] io
> PCI: 00:07.0 18 *  [0x2868 - 0x286f] io
>
> What does it mean? What are the implications? Is this a bug, something fixable? How is the limit of "0x200" decided?
>
> Alex

Hi Alex,

It is a little hard to tell from just those few lines, but it means
that the resource allocator couldn't allocate the requested size. This
is probably a problem in the mainboard devicetree.cb or a device that
does something that the allocator didn't anticipate.

Marc