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

Andi Kleen
2007-10-30T19:37:30Z

On Tuesday 30 October 2007 20:06:12 Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Also there are still the old x86 Macs where conf1 doesn't work.
>
> I don't think that was ever true. That was a made-up rumor by the EFI
> people who were just confused.
> There's no way to disable conf1 accesses on any known chipset, afaik.

There was a tester with such a machine and he complained until
the heuristic handled this case. So there is evidence it
really was like this.

-Andi