Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pci-disable-decode-of-io-memory-during-bar-sizing.patch |
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Yeah, that's definitely a problem, and would be a firmware bug. There's > no doubt that firmwares have had trouble with this in the past, but > given that Vista now relies on this stuff working, it's a lot more > likely to be reliable in current and future systems.
I agree. I think most of the big problems we had were basically with unreleased or very early systems.
But the per-device flag should "just fix it" regardless, and we can go forward assuming that things work, but without breaking those borderline systems.
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