Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel

From: Justin Mattock
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 14:21:00 EST


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> YH,
>> I'll file a radar bug report on this with Apple but wouldn't
>> hold my breath for them to fix the firmware. Also, it would be
>> a good idea to encourage all of the folks using 2.6.26 on
>> Macintel to watch out for the "MMCONFIG not used" message in
>> their dmesg and report that to you. I strongly suspect that
>> the MacBook Pro v2 isn't the only model with broken firmware.
>> Jack
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > YH,
>>> > Do you see anything in the pci earlydump and the associated lspci --vvxxxx
>>> > output that sheds any light on why we have to clean up the dmi with your
>>> > mmconfig patch on a MacBookPro2? I am wondering if the BIOS information is
>>> > being misused by the linux kernel or if the BIOS is just buggy.
>
> it only happened when 3G ram installed.
>
> when 2G installed, it will use [0xe0000000 - 0xf0000000), for bus [0,255]
> and that is ok
>
> YH
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Where might us mac users locate a custom
dsdt to try?


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