On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Why do we want to do this? Are the ACPI-provided tables incorrect? If so, > what problems are caused by this? The ACPI-provided tables are apparently correct, but we sanity-check them by _also_ requiring that the mmconfig base address is marked "reserved" in the e820 tables. The EFI memory maps apparently don't do that "reserved" marking. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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