Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-15T19:40:58Z

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:38:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Tony Camuso wrote:
> > Linus is confident that conf1 is not going away for at least the
> > next five years.
>
> Not on PC's. Small birds tell me that there can be all these non-PC x86
> subarchitectures that may or may not have conf1.

Right -- hence my patch on top of Ivan's which removes all the assumptions
about conf1 from mmconfig (there are still *references* to conf1 in the
mmconfig code, but they'll only be used if conf1 is functional).

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