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

Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-12T15:47:17Z

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:40:30 +0300
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> wrote:
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>
> > Ivan, you posted one a while ago, but never seemed to get any
> > confirmation if it helped or not. Should I use that and drop
> > Arjan's?
>
> Actually I'm strongly against Arjan's patch. First, it's based on
> assumption that the MMCONFIG thing is sort of fundamentally broken
> on some systems, but none of the facts we have so far does confirm
> that. And second, I really don't like the implementation as it breaks
> all non-x86 arches (or forces them to add a set of totally meaningless
> PCI functions).

no it doesn't!
Other arches need no changes.