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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:42:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4654B530.2050705@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705231438.03910.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:35 pm Alan Cox wrote:
>>> One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from
>>> traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space
>>> in PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy
>>> PCI config space.
>> Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the
>> config space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your
>> favourite movie company and video card vendor...
> 
> I hate "trusted" platform garbage as much as the next guy 
> (where "trusted" means the actual user can't trust it, just the 
> seller), but I think there are legitimate uses of extended space as 
> well, PCIe AER uses it iirc, so don't dismiss it on those grounds. :)

Indeed.  It's just a register space.  Assuming one register space is 
"more evil" than another, simply because it is bigger, is.. well.. silly.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30  2:14 [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources Robert Hancock
2007-04-30  2:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-30 22:59 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-30 23:26   ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-01 16:48   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-02  2:41   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-02  2:56     ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-02  5:27       ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-02 14:34         ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-02 17:57           ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-02 23:45             ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-02 23:54               ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-04 21:06                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-05  0:22                   ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-21 19:10                   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-21 19:26                     ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-21 20:07                       ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-21 20:22                         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23  0:31                           ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23  0:38                             ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23  0:53                               ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23  0:56                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23  1:06                               ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23 18:52                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 20:20                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 20:38                                     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-23 20:45                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 20:49                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 20:56                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 21:03                                         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 21:09                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 21:35                                             ` Alan Cox
2007-05-23 21:35                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 21:37                                               ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 21:42                                                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-23 23:07                                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-23 21:54                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 22:06                                             ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 22:16                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 22:28                                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 23:04                                                 ` David Miller
2007-05-23 23:11                                                   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 23:15                                                     ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23 23:21                                                       ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 21:20                                         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 22:24                                           ` Olivier Galibert
2007-05-23 22:31                                             ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-23 22:48                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 22:55                                               ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-24  0:21                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24  2:59                                                   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-24  3:18                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24  3:20                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24  3:40                                                         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-24  5:19                                                           ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-24  6:18                                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24 15:42                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 23:04                                     ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23 23:04                                   ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-23 23:06                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-24  0:02 ` Jesse Barnes

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