From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:52:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610060052.46538.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051536590.3952@g5.osdl.org>
> In other words, right now we have
>
> int pci_read_config_byte(struct pci_dev *dev, int where, u8 *val)
>
> and maybe we will simply have to add a totally new function like
>
> int pci_read_mmio_config_byte(struct pci_dev *dev, int where, u8 *val)
>
> for drivers that literally _require_ the mmio accesses for one reason or
> another.
That's easy to decide: if (where >= 256) mmconfig is required.
I'm just afraid it probably won't help if the MCFG is totally broken and
points to some other devices (like on the Intel boards). Then these drivers will
just hang and all of Alan's warning messages won't help with that.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 17:10 Please pull x86-64 bug fixes Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:31 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 19:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 19:42 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-10-05 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:21 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 0:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 1:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 11:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 16:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 22:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-06 22:31 ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-06 23:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-07 5:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-07 2:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-08 20:59 ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-08 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-05 21:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-06 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-16 12:21 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 17:27 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:05 ` Andi Kleen
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