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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > 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. We were planning to remove that heuristic anyways because it produced far too many false positivies. In fact I think Greg has already done it. Then that patch should be obsolete. -Andi - 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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