Vasudevan S wrote:
I run Fedora Core 6 on the 'compaq nc6320' laptop. I am using the
'2.6.19.1' kernel.
While booting the kernel, I noticed the following error message:
PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f8000000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
After some search, I commented out the 'e820_all_mapped()' check in
the 'pci_mmcfg_init()' function. I no longer see this message and MMCONFIG
method seems to be used now.
Is this the right thing to do?
Maybe on that box you can get away with it, but I believe the purpose of
the check is to weed out BIOSes that have totally broken MCFG tables. I
think there is some work going on to be able to check and/or bash the
chipset registers manually on various chipsets to reduce our reliance on
the BIOS getting this right..
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