Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:27:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG [try #1] |
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Why do we want to do this? Are the ACPI-provided tables incorrect? If so, > what problems are caused by this?
The ACPI-provided tables are apparently correct, but we sanity-check them by _also_ requiring that the mmconfig base address is marked "reserved" in the e820 tables.
The EFI memory maps apparently don't do that "reserved" marking.
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