Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86 PCI domain support

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:11:54PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:39:04PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >>ACPI PCI support stopped short of supporting multiple PCI domains,
> >>which is something I need in order to support a current machine
> >>configuration, and something many will soon need, to support upcoming
> >>systems.
> >>
> >>This is a minimal, untested implementation.  But it should work,
> >>provided your PCI op hooks (direct, BIOS, mmconfig) support PCI domains
> >>(mmconfig).
> >
> >
> >It looks like a good start.  Thanks for doing this.
> >
> >It actually needs some more fixes - e.g. falling back to 
> >type1 if the bus is not covered in MCFG (needed for the 
> >K8 internal busses) and a workaround for buggy Asus BIOS with wrong MCFG.
> >I have that in the works.
> >
> >But your changes are needed too - or at least they are correct
> >according to the spec. I don't know of a system that actually
> >has different mmconfig apertures for different busses yet.
> >The only case that's interesting right now is that some busses
> >don't support it at all, but these don't need a seg number,
> >just a non listing in MCFG.
> >
> >Greg are you queueing this up? 
> 
> The first two patches could go in immediately, the last should probably 
> wait a bit...

Ok, I'll queue up all of them for testing in the next few -mm releases
before sending them on.

Care to add some "Signed-off-by:" lines to the patches?

thanks,

greg k-h
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