From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932308Ab0E1RBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:01:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34189 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755888Ab0E1RBH (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:01:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFFF6B8.30005@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:00:40 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Travis CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, Jesse Barnes , Bjorn Helgaas , Jacob Pan , Tejun Heo , Mike Habeck , LKML Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] x86 pci: Add option to not assign BAR's if not already assigned References: <4BEAF008.9030805@sgi.com> <4BFFF517.6040401@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4BFFF517.6040401@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/28/2010 09:53 AM, Mike Travis wrote: > Any further consideration for this patch, or has it been rejected? Well, it's really up to Jesse, but as far as I can see, this patch is a net loss of functionality and doesn't actually add anything. Without this patch, some resources that were not assigned by BIOS will be unreachable. With this patch, *all* resources that were not assigned by BIOS will be unreachable... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.