From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@sun.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG is used
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:53:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709131353.15752.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070913104704.GA3878@kroah.com>
On Thursday 13 September 2007 12:47, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 September 2007 04:21, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG is
> > > used.
> > >
> > > reuse pci_cfg_space_size but skip check pci express and pci-x CAP ID.
> >
> > I just rejected a similar patch -- this should be done using MMCONFIG
>
> But what about for broken machines without the proper MMCONFIG entries?
> They still need a way to get access to this config space,
If there are any devices that need it. IBS and PCI-E error handling
do, but they're quite obscure.
Also so far we don't know of any Fam 10h systems without MMCONFIG
entries. Fam10h requires a new BIOS so it's reasonable to assume
that the new BIOSes will do better.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-13 2:21 [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG is used Yinghai Lu
2007-09-13 2:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-13 10:47 ` Greg KH
2007-09-13 11:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-09-13 17:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-13 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-13 19:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-13 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-13 20:15 ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-13 20:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-14 11:21 ` [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-14 14:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-14 17:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-14 18:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-16 3:18 ` [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG is used Andi Kleen
2007-09-13 19:52 ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-13 20:14 ` Yinghai Lu
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