Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd

Yinghai Lu
2008-08-30T02:29:18Z

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > Ok, can we please
>> >
>> > - *do* get a quirk for known-broken chipsets (at a *PCI* level, this is
>> > not an x86 issue)
>>
>> the quirk work at the first point for David' system.
>
> That was not what I meant - meant the known-broken MMIO bar.
>
>> [PATCH] x86: protect hpet in BAR for one ATI chipset v3
>
> Now, this is probably fine too in theory, but
>
> - you didn't check if the BAR is even enabled, afaik
>
> - the other patch - to move the reserved e820 range later - should make
> this pointless, no?

yes.

>
>> > - *not* get any more random PCI work-arounds that go through the x86 tree
>> > and aren't even looked at by the (very few) people who actually
>> > understand the PCI resource handling?
>>
>> stop working on following path?
>> [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v4
>> [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v4 - fix v2
>
> No, I think this is worth doing, BUT IT MUST NOT BE MERGED BY JUST SENDING
> IT TO INGO.
>
> It's not an "x86 patch". It's about the PCI resources.
>
> And those kinds of patches need to be acked by people who know and
> understand the PCI resource issues and have some memory of just how
> broken machines can exist.

i see.

YH