linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

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Message-Id: <200705011627.14948.jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 16:27:14 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

On Monday, April 30, 2007 4:20 pm Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Right, but you patch should obsolete this stuff anyway.  I'll test
> > it out in the next few days.
>
> We likely still want this chipset-specific support, it will catch the
> case where the MCFG table lists a location which is reserved in ACPI
> but the chipset was actually programmed to a different location
> entirely, which I seem to remember someone mentioning was actually
> the case on some boards..

Yeah, I suppose that's true.  So maybe your new checking code should 
leverage the stuff in mmconfig-shared.c to check against the register 
values like Olivier mentioned?

Jesse
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