Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/pci: try to reserve MCFG areas earlier

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wed Sep 11 2019 - 05:13:44 EST


On 11.09.2019 03:15, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
> Another thing that I implied by "not supporting" but want to explicitly
> call out is that currently Xen will refuse reserving any MCFG area
> unless it actually existed in MCFG table at boot. I don't clearly
> understand reasoning behind it but it might be worth relaxing at least
> size matching restriction on Xen side now with this change.

I guess it's because no-one had a system were it would be needed,
and hence could be tested.

Jan