Re: MCFG ACPI patch in git-x86 causes boot regression
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 11:28:42 EST
* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/broken-out/pci-disable-decoding-during-sizing-of-bars.patch
> > >
> > > Without this change a bunch of machines fail to boot even without
> > > the MCFG change (since their MCFG was E820 reserved and so the old
> > > validation check passed).
> >
> > Andi, can you confirm that your box boots fine with that patch
> > applied?
>
> Yes it does.
thanks for testing it. (and thanks for finding & reporting the problem)
I've added that patch to x86.git, right before:
Subject: x86: validate against ACPI motherboard resources
this should be the only dependency AFAICS.
Ingo
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