Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driveropt-in issue

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg KH wrote:
> But it is that device, and the driver that controls this device that
> cares about the extended config space.  So it's fair to push this onto
> the driver if needed, instead of forcing the pci core to just blindly
> guess for all devices, and getting it wrong...


Nothing is being forced to guess.  You make sure the broken chipsets 
never enable mmconfig...  just like we do for plenty of other errata.

	Jeff


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