From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 07:37:01 +0000 Subject: Re: IA64 test report: 2.6.0-test11/tiger 2003-12-18: 9/9 pass Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 03:14:25PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote: > >> (What does it mean to have an > >> address space descriptor that starts at 0xffffffff and ends at 0x0?) > >For PCI-PCI bridges, it means disable that particular window/range > register. > >ie don't decode and route transactions. > > But I didn't find this kind of explanation on ACPI spec. I was just commenting on how PCI-PCI Bridges behave and I know OS code (both linux and hpux) expects this behavior. I have no idea what ACPI says about this or even if ACPI specification should dictate this behavior. grant