Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes

Alan Cox
2006-10-05T21:35:43Z

Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 19:53 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> If you have a patch that works with all known BIOS bugs (including Mac Mini,
> a random Intel 975 board and a Asus AMD K8 board with PCI Express) please share it.

Well you currently don't have such a patch so thats a disingenuous
argument. More useful for the short term till this is fixed might be to
provide

pci_requires_mmconfig(dev)

which forces it on for that device regardless and may (internal
implementation detail) print a warning "if your system hangs at this
point.." type message.

That gets us the best of both worlds.