Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driveropt-in issue

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Dec 22 2007 - 19:56:36 EST


Greg KH wrote:
But it is that device, and the driver that controls this device that
cares about the extended config space. So it's fair to push this onto
the driver if needed, instead of forcing the pci core to just blindly
guess for all devices, and getting it wrong...


Nothing is being forced to guess. You make sure the broken chipsets never enable mmconfig... just like we do for plenty of other errata.

Jeff


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