linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86,pci: dmi check for mackpro 2.2 mmconf

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Message-ID: <86802c440807181047y4ef2f227me72e6474e726596@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:47:19 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	"Jack Howarth" <howarth@...mo.msbb.uc.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,pci: dmi check for mackpro 2.2 mmconf

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> change the mconf bus range from [0,0xff] to to [0, 0x3f]
>> to match range [0xf0000000, 0xf4000000) in e820 tables.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
>> Tested-by: Jack Howarth <howarth@...mo.msbb.uc.edu>
>
> Why is this hard-coded instead of discovered dynamically?

you mean according to the range reserved in e820 to find out bus range
that should be used for mmconf?

YH
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