Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: intel bus root res with IOH reading -v2

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 10/12/2009 02:45 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> For the patch in question, we don't even have a root cause for the bug
> (or at least, I couldn't decipher it from the changelog). There's a 
> reference to _CRS being wrong, but we don't currently use _CRS for
> x86 host bridges.
> 
> But in general, my objection is that even if BIOS provides perfectly
> valid information about host bridge apertures, the the fact that Linux
> ignores that information means we have to add this sort of vendor-
> specific code every time we trip over something. And we're tripping
> over things quite often.
> 
> Windows consumes this _CRS information, so while I grant there are
> certainly BIOS bugs there, I think most of the bugs are actually in
> Linux.

I think the right policy for most if not all things should be "use the
BIOS information unless we know better."

	-hpa