linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: Fix BERT resources conflict with ACPI NVS area

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Date:   Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:44:56 -0700
From:   "Baicar, Tyler" <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: Fix BERT resources conflict with ACPI NVS
 area

On 2/13/2017 7:01 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
>
> It was reported that some firmware will use ACPI NVS area for BERT
> address range.  This will cause resources conflict because the ACPI
> NVS area is marked as busy already.  Fix this via excluding ACPI NVS
> area when requesting IO resources for BERT.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Hans Kristian Rosbach <hansr@...kesider.no>
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>

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