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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]PCI Express Port Bus Driver
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:05:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041218000531.GC24586@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7AB9DA4D0B1F344BF2489FA165E5024073EBAE0@orsmsx404.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:06:44PM -0800, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:37 PM, Greg KH wrote: 
> >> +config PCIEPORTBUS
> >> +	bool "PCI Express support"
> >> +	depends on PCI_GOMMCONFIG
> >
> > This should also work if PCI_GOANY is selected, right?  Otherwise this
> > feature will never be turned on by any distro :(
> PCIE port bus driver depends on PCI_GOMMCONFIG to locate service
> attributes for advanced error reporting (AER) and virtual channel (VC)
> for each PCIE port.  Without PCI_GOMMCONFIG, then a read to 0x100
> offset or above will return 0xffff; in other words, neither AER nor VC
> service support is found. We would like to move forward to have
> PCI_GOMMCONFIG dependency as the new features come along. RHEL 4 is
> shipping with PCI_GOMMCONFIG configured into the kernel by default and
> we expect the next major version of SuSE linux to do the same.

Hm, I get a oops message at boot time, on a non-pci express box, with
PCI_GOMMCONFIG enabled and your patch.  Something down in the ACPI
subsystem. 

Have you tested this kind of configuration?

I'll hold off on applying the patch for now due to this :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-18  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16  0:06 [PATCH]PCI Express Port Bus Driver Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-18  0:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-12-18  5:49   ` Tim Hockin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-23  1:23 long
2005-01-11 23:39 ` [PATCH]PCI " Greg KH
2004-12-21 21:02 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-21 19:46 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-21 19:56 ` Greg KH
2004-12-21 19:21 long
2004-12-21 18:57 ` [PATCH]PCI " Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-20 23:00 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-20 18:15 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-20 18:24 ` Greg KH
2004-12-18  0:44 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-18  0:37 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-12-15 22:27 long
2004-12-15 21:37 ` Greg KH
2004-12-18  0:05 ` Greg KH

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