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  • * Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG
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    @ 2007-12-19 23:16 ` Greg KH
      3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
    From: Greg KH @ 2007-12-19 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: tcamuso; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-pci, prarit
    
    On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:17:46PM -0500, tcamuso@redhat.com wrote:
    > OVERVIEW
    > =======
    > 
    > The patches should be applied in sequence to obviate any
    > possible build problems.
    > 
    > The patch-set was built against 2.6.24-rc5
    > 
    > Description
    > ===========
    > 
    > There exist devices that do not respond correctly to PCI
    > MMCONFIG accesses in x86 platforms.
    
    What devices are these?  Do you have reports of them somewhere?
    
    > This patch-set detects the problem by comparing an MMCONFIG
    > read to a Legacy PCI config read of the vendor/device dword
    > of every device discovered during the PCI probing sequence.
    > 
    > A miscompare means that a device does not correctly respond
    > to MMCONFIG accesses. When the patch code detects this condition,
    > the bus that serves this device, and all subordinate buses, will
    > be programmed to use Legacy PCI Config accesses.
    > 
    > This patch-set DOES NOT detect devices that generate machine
    > checks against MMCONFIG accesses. For such systems,
    > "pci=nommconf" is required in the boot command.
    
    That sounds like this patchset can cause bad side affects on hardware
    that currently works just fine.  That is not a good thing to be adding
    to the kernel, right?
    
    thanks,
    
    greg k-h
    
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