From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: rajesh.shah@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, brice@myri.com,
76306.1226@compuserve.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86_64 PCI: improve extended config space verification
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:30:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606232230.36579.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060623201601.752629000@rshah1-sfield.jf.intel.com>
On Friday 23 June 2006 22:09, rajesh.shah@intel.com wrote:
> Extend the verification for PCI-X/PCI-Express extended config
> space pointer. This patch checks whether the MCFG address range
> is listed as a motherboard resource, per the PCI firmware spec.
> The old check only looked in int 15 e820 memory map, causing
> several systems to fail the verification and lose extended
> config space.
By adding so much code to it you volunteered to factor the
sanity check into a common i386/x86-64 file first.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 20:09 [patch 0/2] PCI: improve extended config space verification rajesh.shah
2006-06-23 20:09 ` [patch 1/2] i386 " rajesh.shah
2006-06-23 20:09 ` [patch 2/2] x86_64 " rajesh.shah
2006-06-23 20:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-23 22:43 ` Greg KH
2006-06-27 0:57 ` Rajesh Shah
2006-06-23 20:18 ` [patch 0/2] " Jeff Garzik
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2006-06-27 0:45 [patch 0/2] PCI: improve extended config space verification - take #2 rajesh.shah
2006-06-27 0:45 ` [patch 2/2] x86_64 PCI: improve extended config space verification rajesh.shah
2006-06-27 4:28 ` Andi Kleen
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