On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> It should be self-evident that mmconfig doesn't work on old hardware, is not
> needed on old hardware, should not be turned on for old hardware, and in
> general should never disturb old hardware.
.. but it does. How do you figure out when to turn it off?
By "old hardware" I don't mean stuff from the last century, that generally
doesn't even *have* MMCONFIG. I mean the stuff you can buy *today*, which
will be old by the time people really start _needing_ MMCONFIG.
The fact is, 99% of the hardware you buy *today* has absolutely zero need
for extended PCI config access. In fact, I would not be surprised at all
if most hardware sold today generally doesn't have *any* devices that even
have config registers in the 0x100+ range.
So those are the kinds of machines we want to protect from blowing up.
Stuff that isn't sold with Vista, and has never been tested (or where
vista does some work-arounds we don't even know about - somebody was
mentioning things like looking at the BIOS date etc).
Linus
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