Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from 
> > traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space in 
> > PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy PCI 
> > config space.
>
> Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the config
> space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your favourite
> movie company and video card vendor...

Um, no, Mr. Paranoia, it's a standard part of the spec.

	Jeff



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