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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: matthew@wil.cx, greg@kroah.com,
	Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Subject: Re: PCI MMCONFIG aperture size
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:58:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060822145802.GR16573@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608220955.31620.ak@suse.de>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:55:31AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > This says to me that (as long as the MCFG table has an End Bus Number of
> > 31) a 32 MB decode area (32 MB aligned, too) is valid.
> > 
> > Would something like the below patch be accepted?  It makes my system
> > work...
> 
> I already got a patch to remove the complete e820 validation code because
> it broke far more than it fixed. That should fix your problem too.

Great!  Coming in 2.6.18?

> > Also, why are we forcing 32 bit base addresses?  ACPI defines it to be a
> > 64 bit base...
> 
> Where do you think we do that?

Looking at 2.6.17, we always have u32 base_address and u32
base_reserved.  base_address is the only one ever referenced, that I can
see.  I guess I should grab 2.6.18 pre-releases and recheck.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22  2:42 PCI MMCONFIG aperture size Tim Hockin
2006-08-22  7:55 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 14:58   ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2006-08-22 15:00     ` Andi Kleen

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