Re: pci-disable-decode-of-io-memory-during-bar-sizing.patch

Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30T22:48:32Z

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's definitely a problem, and would be a firmware bug. There's
> no doubt that firmwares have had trouble with this in the past, but
> given that Vista now relies on this stuff working, it's a lot more
> likely to be reliable in current and future systems.

I agree. I think most of the big problems we had were basically with
unreleased or very early systems.

But the per-device flag should "just fix it" regardless, and we can go
forward assuming that things work, but without breaking those borderline
systems.

Linus