Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel

Linus Torvalds
2003-12-16T16:48:06Z

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
>
> I re-worked the patch. This time it uses fixmap; I added config
> parameters to disable this code and to handle non-default base address.

Ok, this looks sane to me.

However, I have a totally independent question: do new PCI Express host
bridges really not just suppor the old PCI config access interface?

Quite frankly, if I was a manager in charge of a PCI Express host bridge,
and it didn't support the old C8C IO access patterns, I'd be so ashamed of
myself that I'd kill my whole development team with rat poison, and then
blame them for the mistake(*).

Do we know of any sudden suspicious death waves inside certain groups at
Intel?

Linus

(*) That's how managers work, after all. Long gone are the days when
personal shame caused you to take personal responsibility.