Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 16:03:13 EST


On 09/16/2010 12:33 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Those Dell machine BIOS set wrong value in the pci bridge. and it is partial
> overlapped with reserved range in e820.
>
> Kernel current will honor that HW setting from pci bridge reading at first.
>
> so the best way should be: using e820 reserved range to trim reading from pci or acpi in some cases.
>

Yes, that's the only sane option.

-hpa
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