linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel

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Message-ID: <dd18b0c30807181156p643efa4aj51193c9cad4639de@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:56:04 +0000
From:	"Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"Jack Howarth" <howarth@...mo.msbb.uc.edu>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Justin Mattock
> <justinmattock@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth@...mo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>>>> YH,
>>>>   I'll file a radar bug report on this with Apple but wouldn't
>>>> hold my breath for them to fix the firmware. Also, it would be
>>>> a good idea to encourage all of the folks using 2.6.26 on
>>>> Macintel to watch out for the "MMCONFIG not used" message in
>>>> their dmesg and report that to you. I strongly suspect that
>>>> the MacBook Pro v2 isn't the only model with broken firmware.
>>>>                   Jack
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth@...mo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>>>>> > YH,
>>>>> >   Do you see anything in the pci earlydump and the associated lspci --vvxxxx
>>>>> > output that sheds any light on why we have to clean up the dmi with your
>>>>> > mmconfig patch on a MacBookPro2? I am wondering if the BIOS information is
>>>>> > being misused by the linux kernel or if the BIOS is just buggy.
>>>
>>> it only happened when 3G ram installed.
>>>
>>> when 2G installed, it will use [0xe0000000 - 0xf0000000), for bus [0,255]
>>> and that is ok
>>>
>>> YH
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>>
>> Where might us mac users locate a custom
>> dsdt to try?
>
> MCFG is outside of DSDT.
>
> YH
>

Hmm I need to study more on this subject.

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Justin P. Mattock
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