On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:47 -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
> >> 2. Onto some more minor warnings:
> >>
> >> ACPI: bus type pci registered
> >> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
> >> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
> >> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> >> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> >>
> >> Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug
> >there? If it is, is there anyone within Intel or are there any
> >known contacts
> >who can push and poke > to get this looked at/fixed?
> >(It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get it right..).
>
> Arjan should probably comment on that one.
I could.. but please next time if you want to CC me use an email address
I actually read ;)
Greg has a patch to relax this check, and Rajesh has a further patch to
relax it more. However, to a large degree we cannot relax it too much
without breaking the reason this check is there: detect a buggy MCFG
table and not crash and burn later on, but rather just not use it.
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