Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 15:27:24 EST


On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:48:51 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> People complained that setting the PCI config space access mechanism
> through "pci=conf1" or "pci=conf2" on the command line is not really
> documented. Yeah, can you blame them? Look at what we have now.
>
> So try to improve the situation a bit by explaining what those "conf1"
> and "conf2" things actually mean.

Seems good, applied to the docs tree...

> See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info.

...but I took the liberty of adding this URL too; people reading the
document are unlikely to check the commit log in case there's a useful
pointer waiting there for them :)

Thanks,

jon