On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:30:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 22:09, [email protected] wrote:
> > Extend the verification for PCI-X/PCI-Express extended config
> > space pointer. This patch checks whether the MCFG address range
> > is listed as a motherboard resource, per the PCI firmware spec.
> > The old check only looked in int 15 e820 memory map, causing
> > several systems to fail the verification and lose extended
> > config space.
>
> By adding so much code to it you volunteered to factor the
> sanity check into a common i386/x86-64 file first.
I agree :)
Also, have you looked at the current -git tree? It also modified some
stuff in this area? Look at commit
ead2bfeb7f739d2ad6e09dc1343f0da51feb7f51 for details.
thanks,
greg k-h
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