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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG [try #1]
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:27:15 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607242226200.29649@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060724213339.2646435c.akpm@osdl.org>



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.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-25  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-26 21:19 [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4] Edgar Hucek
2006-06-26 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-27  6:15   ` Edgar Hucek
2006-06-27  6:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-28 22:37       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 17:39         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 17:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 18:26             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 18:46               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05  9:38               ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-05 15:52                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 21:46                   ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-13 22:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14  4:23                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14  6:22                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-14  6:20                       ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-14 16:09                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16  8:55                           ` [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25  4:29                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  5:17                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-25  5:32                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25  5:34                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25  5:44                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25  6:26                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25  6:00                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16  9:00                           ` [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG " Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25  4:33                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  5:27                               ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-07-26 15:05                                 ` Andi Kleen

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