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

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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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