Re: [patch 2/2] x86_64 PCI: improve extended config space verification

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 16:29:24 EST


On Friday 23 June 2006 22:09, rajesh.shah@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Extend the verification for PCI-X/PCI-Express extended config
> space pointer. This patch checks whether the MCFG address range
> is listed as a motherboard resource, per the PCI firmware spec.
> The old check only looked in int 15 e820 memory map, causing
> several systems to fail the verification and lose extended
> config space.

By adding so much code to it you volunteered to factor the
sanity check into a common i386/x86-64 file first.

-Andi
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