From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754534Ab2ACSAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:00:34 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15142 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754283Ab2ACSAc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:00:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:00:21 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Jesse Barnes , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell Studio 1536 needs pci=nocrs to boot. Message-ID: <20120103180020.GA15014@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Bjorn Helgaas , Jesse Barnes , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel , x86@kernel.org References: <20111230193704.GA2874@redhat.com> <20120101145354.GA1791@elte.hu> <20120103093020.0cbcd735@jbarnes-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 15:53:54 +0100 > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >> > >> * Dave Jones wrote: > >> > >> > Some machines don't boot unless passed pci=nocrs. > >> > (See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770308 for details of > >> >   one report. Waiting on dmidecode output for others). > >> > > >> > Currently there is a DMI whitelist, even though the default is on. > >> > > >> > This patch extends that dmi list to add a blacklist to automatically > >> > apply disable it when necessary. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones > >> > >> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar > >> > >> Jesse, will you take this one? > > > > Yeah, I can take it.  Bjorn, any comment (I'll bounce over the > > original)? > > This is a band-aid, and we'll have to extend the blacklist for other > machines, but it's the best we have right now, so I think it's the > right thing to do. > > It's probably the same as > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31602 (Dell 1546) and > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/647043 There's at least one more dell (Seems that entire 'studio' product line is affected) that I'm waiting on DMI data from. Also a thinkpad that I have a patch pending for. Dave