linux-kernel - Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

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Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:14:27 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

On 2006-10-09, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:31:36 +0200
> Matthias Hentges <oe@...tges.net> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Oops, I forgot the "x" in lspci -vvvx, new dumps are attached.
>
>
> I think I know what the problem is. The PCI access routines to access pci express
> registers (ie reg > 256), only work if using MMCONFIG access. For some reason
> your configuration doesn't want to use/allow that.

In case you didn't read, here's top of thread about MMCONFIG 4 days ago:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.x86-64.general/1794>

In short: due to Intel BIOS bug, mmconfig doesn't used in kernel.
And kernel developers mainly do not care much (yet) about drivers, until
vi$ta certified hardware will be in run.
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