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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: boot parameter to avoid expansion ROM memory allocation
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:57:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805201057.49679.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514162015.GA6713@us.ibm.com>

On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:20 am Gary Hade wrote:
> > Correct, not a perfect solution but better than we have right now.
>
> ...but don't let this comment make you think that I am not in
> favor of something like you are suggesting.  I am interested
> in getting the 'pci=norom' change into mainline quickly but it
> is obviously less than ideal for the long term.
>
> Jesse, any idea how many different devices absolutely need
> memory allocated for their expansion ROMs?

Unless there's a ton of demand, I'd rather go with the norom option, but 
either way, I'd like to push the fix early in the 2.6.27 cycle rather than 
trying to get it into 2.6.26 at the last minute...

So assuming you're ok with your last patch, I'll stuff it into linux-next.

Thanks,
Jesse


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 20:57 [PATCH] PCI: boot parameter to avoid expansion ROM memory allocation Gary Hade
2008-05-12 21:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-12 22:30   ` Gary Hade
2008-05-13 17:48     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-13 21:00       ` Gary Hade
2008-05-13 21:11         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-13 21:44           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-13 22:28           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-05-13 23:23             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-14  0:07               ` Gary Hade
2008-05-14 16:20                 ` Gary Hade
2008-05-14 16:58                   ` [RFC] which drivers need to map ROM BARs? Jesse Barnes
2008-05-20 17:57                   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2008-05-20 20:00                     ` [PATCH] PCI: boot parameter to avoid expansion ROM memory allocation Gary Hade
2008-05-20 20:16                       ` Jesse Barnes
2008-05-21 17:29                         ` Gary Hade
2008-05-21 17:40                           ` Jesse Barnes

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