Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs

[Grant Grundler]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > If reading past 1MB for those ROMs causes a reboots, could something be
> > wrong in the IA64 fault handing code?
> 
> No, that's normal behaviour on ia64 -- unacknowledged PCI reads cause a
> machine check rather than reading ffffffff like x86 does.

Only on HP IA64 machines (just like on HP parisc machines).
Intel IA64 machines return -1 or garbage on Master Abort
(due to timeout) just like the IA32 platforms.

grant
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