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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] PCI mmconfig without ACPI
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:57:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505105744.4268e341@hobbes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234812741.28801.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:32:21 -0800
Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> wrote:

> Here's another attempt at decoupling the setup of memory-mapped PCI
> configuration space from ACPI.  I implemented your suggestions for
> moving the ACPI-specific code to a separate file.  I left the
> definition of struct acpi_mcfg_allocation alone, and created a new
> struct pci_mcfg_allocation.  The former is now used only for parsing
> the actual ACPI MCFG table, while the latter is used to store
> information about mmcfg regions regardless of where they came from.
> 
> (This is still an RFC; the code is pretty much untested.)
> 

I'm still a bit dubious about this; does it solve a real issue?  Or
just remove the ACPI dependency for its own sake?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 16:59 [RFC] [PATCH] PCI mmconfig without ACPI Ed Swierk
2009-02-04 18:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 20:40   ` Jesse Barnes
2009-02-16 19:32   ` Ed Swierk
2009-05-05 17:57     ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2009-05-05 20:09       ` Ed Swierk
2009-05-05 20:32         ` Jesse Barnes
2009-02-21  5:55   ` Len Brown
2009-02-22  9:22     ` Ingo Molnar

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