linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI MMConfig: Detect and support the E7520 and the 945G/GZ/P/PL

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Date:	Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:57:41 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
Cc:	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	"Hack inc." <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI MMConfig: Detect and support the E7520 and the
	945G/GZ/P/PL

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:51 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> It seems that the only way to reliably support mmconfig in the
> presence of funky biosen is to detect the hostbridge and read where
> the window is mapped from its registers.  Do that for the E7520 and
> the 945G/GZ/P/PL on x86-64 for a start.


hi,

while I like this approach a lot, I am wondering if this shouldn't be
done as a PCI quirk instead.... it would make a lot of sense to use that
shared infrastructure for this...


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