Re: MCFG ACPI patch in git-x86 causes boot regression

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 03:14:27 EST



* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On previous kernels the MCFG was rejected because it wasn't e820
> > reserved:
>
> Yep, this patch (as was stated many times) requires other fixes to PCI
> probing--either disabling decode, not using mmconfig unless absolutely
> required, or one of the other discussed changes. I'm not sure why it
> was pushed before one of those changes went in.

yeah - we try to pick up patches early into x86.git, so that integration
issues can be found as early as possible. But this patch should live in
Greg's tree - just sent it back.

Ingo
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