linux-kernel - Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops

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Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:47:30 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, henti@...kware.co.za
Subject: Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:43 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes:
> > 
> > this is the known bug where by default Linux uses the BIOS services for
> > PCI rather than the native method.
> 
> It's a BIOS bug if the PCI BIOS doesn't work, not a Linux bug.

it's a bios bug if it doesn't work.
it's a linux mistake to depend on the bios for this in the first place
(since other OSes don't use this afaik)

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if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com

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