Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:09:39 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] PCI extended conf space when MMCONFIG disabled because of e820 |
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Brice Goglin wrote:er. > > What would you think of a patch implementing the following strategy: > 1) if MMCONFIG works, always use it (no change) > 2) if MMCONFIG is disabled and we are accessing the regular config > space, use direct conf (no change, should ensure that any machine will > still boot fine) > 3) if MMCONFIG is disabled but we are accessing the _extended_ config > space, try mmconfig anyway since there's no other way to do it.
an OS isn't allowed to mix old and new access methods realistically so I don't think this is a viable good solution... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org 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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