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