Re: [Bug #15124] PCI host bridge windows ignored (works withpci=use_crs)

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Wed Jan 27 2010 - 22:24:37 EST


On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:50:17 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > [PATCH] x86/pci: don't use ioh resource if only have one ioh
>
> Please, no.
>
> This patch is too ugly to live.
>
> And it's totally unacceptable to probe every single possible PCI device
> for something like this.
>
> If we don't know enough about the hardware workings of those Intel bridges
> to know when they are active and how they decode things, then please let's
> just disable intel_bus.c entirely.
>
> There's no excuse for hacky tests like this.

Ok, we'll just kill it entirely then. I'll send a patch tomorrow
unless Yinghai beats me to it.

--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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