Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:28:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > Did I miss a bug report?  The only problems I'm currently aware of are
> > the ones where using MMCONFIG during BAR probing causes a hard lockup on
> > some Intel machines, and the ones where we get bad config data on some
> > AMD machines due to the configuration retry status being mishandled.
> 
> Hmm. Were all those reports root-caused to just that BAR probing? If so, 
> we may be in better shape than I worried.

I believe so.

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