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Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes:

>
> major? the MMConfig support is minimal as I can see? 
>
>> > Marcelo, feel free to tell me otherwise if you do not want
>> > this in the 2.4 tree. 
>
> Is this code necessary for PCI-Express devices/busses to work properly?

No, it is completely optional right now.

Also we found that it sometimes triggers bugs that are not happening
with old style config space accesses. 

-Andi