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Message-Id: <20071028.180807.165828961.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: gregkh@...e.de Cc: barak@...cleus.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, guy@...cleus.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K) - Fix From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:03:36 -0700 > But doesn't aligning such regions on that alignment break some devices > as that is not what the device is asking for in the BIOS? There are also platforms where bootup firmware chooses the allocations, and that is what we use no matter what. This is so that when breaking into the firmware for debugging the firmware can still access the console device where it had mapped it in the first place. We really can't do things this way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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