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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quiet MMCONFIG related printks
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:37:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701020837.45016.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102103602.28a873ea@localhost.localdomain>

On Tuesday, January 2, 2007 2:36 am, Alan wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:01:38 -0800
>
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > Using MMCONFIG for PCI config space access is simply an
> > optimization, not a requirement.  Therefore, when it can't be used,
> > there's no need for
>
> Some hardware reqires MCFG. In addition this is an error, a real
> error on the vendors part or ours and could indicate there are many
> other BIOS problems outstanding.

Ok, I was mistaken then.  However, I see this on several boxes, and the 
broken BIOSen out in the wild are unlikely to be fixed.  Maybe this 
should really be a KERN_WARNING instead since it may indicate that some 
devices will fail to work?

> We shouldn't keep quiet about serious errors in tables, we need
> people to know and be able to take appropriate action (eg new BIOSen,
> refusing certifications etc).

Ok.

Jesse

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-02  5:01 [PATCH] quiet MMCONFIG related printks Jesse Barnes
2007-01-02 10:36 ` Alan
2007-01-02 16:37   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2007-01-03 13:52   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 13:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 16:49   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-01-03 17:01     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 19:29       ` Stephen Clark
2007-01-03 17:20   ` Jesse Barnes

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