Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:26:25 -0500 | From | Tony Camuso <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:15:45 -0500 > Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com> wrote: >
>> specific to legacy x86 hardware is, IMNSHO, a kludge. > > in addition to pci_enable(), pci_enable_msi(), pci_enable_busmaster() they already need to do > to enable various features? >
These calls are related to generic aspects of the PCI* landscape itself and are not related to any arch-specific hardware, nor were they devised to address chipset-specific or BIOS-specific problems.
For the good of all, we should endeavor to avoid putting arch-specific fixes into the generic code whenever possible.
And in this case, not only is it possible, it's been done and tested.
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