linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808301615450.3290@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
cc:	Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Witbrodt <dawitbro@...global.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kernel Testers <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit
 a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd



On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> wait, THAT BAR is 64BIT capable, So kernel should assign 64bit range to it...
> it request_resource fails...

I don't think we've ever done new allocations in 64 bits. Although looking 
for it, I have to admit that I don't see what would limit us right now. 
There used to be some paths that weren't 64-bit clean, but I think we 
fixed all of those.

		Linus
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