Re: [PATCH 5/5] PNP: HP nx6325 fixup: reserve unreported resources

Linus Torvalds
2010-12-15T19:21:42Z

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
>
> So here's my proposal for .37:
>  - Keep the current state of _CRS enabled by default (for 2008
>    and newer machines).
>  - Allocate bottom-up always
>  - Avoid E820 reservations

Sounds sane to me. And yes, the fact that the BIOS tends to allocate
things top-down probably does mean that the whole bottom-up approach
tends to be the safer model.

Linus