Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1

Andi Kleen
2006-07-09T18:35:40Z

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:22:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ACPI: bus type pci registered
> > PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
> > PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
> > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> >
> > Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug there? If it is, is
> > there anyone within Intel or are there any known contacts who can push and poke
> > to get this looked at/fixed? (It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get
> > it right..).
> >
> > Plus we're not using MMCONFIG - even though I have it enabled.
>
> Andi stuff.

Greg has patches to relax the checking a bit.

I don't know when he intends to merge them.

Anyways it should be completely harmless - mmconfig does nothing
essential right now.

-Andi