From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, henti@geekware.co.za
Subject: Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:23:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608281123.49027.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156754850.3034.169.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Monday 28 August 2006 10:47, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:43 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
> > >
> > > this is the known bug where by default Linux uses the BIOS services for
> > > PCI rather than the native method.
> >
> > It's a BIOS bug if the PCI BIOS doesn't work, not a Linux bug.
>
> it's a bios bug if it doesn't work.
> it's a linux mistake to depend on the bios for this in the first place
> (since other OSes don't use this afaik)
The patch that fixed the order changed it just from random to
consistent.
But as discussed earlier if someone can show that 2.4 did it the other
way around consistently we can change the order to be like 2.4.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-28 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 8:21 linux on Intel D915GOM oops Henti Smith
2006-08-28 8:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-28 8:43 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28 8:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-28 9:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-28 11:38 ` Henti Smith
2006-08-28 11:56 ` Alan Cox
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