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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Rajesh Shah wrote: > > Oh I agree with you that booting is more important. My point with > > the spec statement was that most BIOS developers may not even know > > they are doing something "wrong" by not listing these resources in > > the int15 E820 table, since the document they normally refer to > > doesn't say so. I suspect there are many more systems out there > > which do the same thing and will fail the check, but we never notice > > since most users don't try to ever access the extended space today. > > well... it's sort of common sense though.. if you want non-ACPI OSes to > work properly (like the older 2.4 based distros...) > In this case we already have an ACPI dependence, since the MCFG table is listed in ACPI. In any case, I have a patch that got me my extended config space back on the one machine I've tested so far. I'll test it out on the remaining 2 where I saw this problem and send it out. Rajesh - 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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