Re: [RFC] PCI extended conf space when MMCONFIG disabled because of e820

From: Rajesh Shah
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 03:49:14 EST


On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Rajesh Shah wrote:
> > Oh I agree with you that booting is more important. My point with
> > the spec statement was that most BIOS developers may not even know
> > they are doing something "wrong" by not listing these resources in
> > the int15 E820 table, since the document they normally refer to
> > doesn't say so. I suspect there are many more systems out there
> > which do the same thing and will fail the check, but we never notice
> > since most users don't try to ever access the extended space today.
>
> well... it's sort of common sense though.. if you want non-ACPI OSes to
> work properly (like the older 2.4 based distros...)
>
In this case we already have an ACPI dependence, since the MCFG
table is listed in ACPI. In any case, I have a patch that got me
my extended config space back on the one machine I've tested so
far. I'll test it out on the remaining 2 where I saw this problem
and send it out.

Rajesh
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