Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3)
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 01:57:40 EST
> What a piece of crap.
>
> Andi, I'm getting really upset about this kind of thing. You've been very
> much not careful about MMCFG in general, and are allowing total crap to go
> into the kernel, without any thought. Just "testing" something isn't good
> enough, it needs to be thought out.
Sorry, probably should have read the patch more carefully.
I think I agreed with the high level idea but didn't double check
the details.
>
> I'm going to revert that totally bogus commit that added that broken
> "pci_mmcfg_insert_resources()" function. It could be done right, but doing
> it right would require that the function
Ok fine by me.
> We really should stop using MMCONFIG entirely, until we have a
Hmm, for .19 at least you mean?
Entirely stopping it would break the x86 macs minis again I think.
But we can make it "only use if type 1 doesn't work"
I'm sure some people will be upset again if we don't use it.
Perhaps there are really users who want to use the PCI-E error handling
for example.
> per-southbridge true knowledge of what the real decoding is. The BIOS
> tables for this are simply too damn unreliable.
My hopes for that are on Vista. Perhaps use a DMI year test again
(>= 2007) and only white lists for older boards.
-Andi
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