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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:02:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45548662.1000409@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163153778.7900.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-11-10 am 07:56 +0100, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
>> I'm sure some people will be upset again if we don't use it.
>> Perhaps there are really users who want to use the PCI-E error handling
>> for example.
> 
> And there is now hardware out there which requires accessing PCI-E
> configuration spaces. Disabling it for those cases is not a sensible
> option t all.

Yeah, mmconfig is required for accessing extended PCI configuration 
space, and for accessing ANY devices on a non-zero PCI segment (read: 
x86 PCI domains).

If you have boot devices on a PCI domain bus, you aren't booting at all, 
unless you're running -mm...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20061107171143.GU27140@parisc-linux.org>
     [not found]   ` <200611080839.46670.ak@suse.de>
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     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611080803280.3667@g5.osdl.org>
2006-11-08 17:26         ` [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3) Adrian Bunk
2006-11-08 17:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-08 18:08             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-08 18:36               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-10  6:25                 ` Jeff Chua
2006-11-10  6:43                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-10  9:21                     ` Jeff Chua
2006-11-10  6:56               ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-10 10:16                 ` Alan Cox
2006-11-10 14:02                   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-10 13:56               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-08 18:17             ` Aaron Durbin
2006-11-10  5:53 Jeff Chua

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