Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:19 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources |
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Alan Cox wrote: >> One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from >> traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space in >> PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy PCI >> config space. > > Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the config > space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your favourite > movie company and video card vendor...
Um, no, Mr. Paranoia, it's a standard part of the spec.
Jeff
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