Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3

[Alok Kataria]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:28 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:59 am Alok Kataria wrote:
> > Hi Andi,
> >
> > I don't see this patch being applied in any of the tree yet.
> > Resending this incase you guys might have missed it.
> > I assume this will go through the ACPI tree.
> >
> > The need for this patch was explained in
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121441818818598&w=2
> >
> > The v2 patch was discussed in
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121433339619175&w=2
> >
> > I then sent a incremental patch on top of v2 to fix some conditions and
> > handle the change in the e820_search_gap interface.
> >
> > In this v3 patch, i have folded the incremental fix into the v2 patch.
> > Please apply this.
> 
> This should probably go to linux-pci too.
> 
> I wonder if this is stable enough to go into 2.6.27?  

I have tested it with couple of different BIOS settings and it seems to
work as it should.

> Most of the PCI bugs we
> have at the moment are related to PCI resource allocation failures.  My hope
> is that finding more space will fix most of them.  Assuming this patch
> doesn't have any dependencies, I can put it in my linux-next branch.

No dependencies, I had added a function e820_search_gap which is used by
this patch. This function is already in the mainline tree. 
Thanks for applying.

--
Alok

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