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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Brian Bloniarz <phunge0@hotmail.com>,
	Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield@nextcentury.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stefan Becker <chemobejk@gmail.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:50:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C913F96.4020106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100915210912.12365.78836.stgit@bob.kio>

On 09/15/2010 02:09 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> On the machine above (a Dell T3500), the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] region
> doesn't actually work and is likely a BIOS defect.  The symptom is that we
> move the AHCI controller to 0xbff00000, which leads to "Boot has failed,
> sleeping forever," a BUG in ahci_stop_engine(), or some other boot failure.
> 

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

... for the patch in general, but I would like to *also* request a DMA
or PCI quirk to explicitly reserve the above range on the affected Dell
machines.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100915210818.12365.58732.stgit@bob.kio>
2010-09-15 21:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-15 21:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] resources: allocate space within a region from the top down Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-15 21:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] PCI: allocate bus resources " Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-15 21:50   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-09-15 22:44     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-15 23:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-16 17:04         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-16 17:44           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-16 19:33             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-16 20:02               ` H. Peter Anvin

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