Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:05:18AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:39:44AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > ACPI knows the number of busses.
> > 
> > But what if the number of busses increases later, eg by hotplugging
> > a card with a PCI-PCI bridge on it?  Or does it know the number of
> > busses which can be supported by this machine's MMCONFIG region?
> 
> ACPI will give the maximum number.
> 
> However, in this case, the correct thing to do (always _has_ been) is to 
> not use ACPI for _anything_, but just read the base and the size of the 
> MMCONFIG region from the hardware itself.
> 
> Anyway, I do not consider this a regression. MMCONFIG has _never_ worked 
> reliably. It has always been a case of "we can make it work on some 
> machines by making it break on others".

It is a serious regression:

The problem is that with the default CONFIG_PCI_GOANY, MMCONFIG is the 
_first_ method tried.

In practice, this implies that nearly every system possibly affected 
will suffer from a MMCONFIG breakage like the one Jeff observed...

> 			Linus

cu
Adrian

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