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

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Justin Mattock
<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

MCFG is outside of DSDT.

YH
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