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From: Greg KH <greg@...>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Martin Mares <mj@...>, dean gaudet <dean@...>, Robert Richter <robert.richter@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG is used
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:47 am

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

But what about for broken machines without the proper MMCONFIG entries?
They still need a way to get access to this config space, so why should
we not also work properly for them?

Until we can somehow flog all BIOS developers until they fix all of
their bugs, we have to be able to handle things like this :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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[PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCO..., Yinghai Lu, (Wed Sep 12, 10:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andi Kleen, (Thu Sep 13, 5:47 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 13, 6:47 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andi Kleen, (Thu Sep 13, 7:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Thu Sep 13, 3:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Sep 13, 4:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Sep 13, 1:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Sep 13, 1:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 15, 11:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Thu Sep 13, 4:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Sep 13, 4:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Fri Sep 14, 7:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Yinghai Lu, (Fri Sep 14, 2:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Yinghai Lu, (Fri Sep 14, 1:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Sep 14, 10:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Sep 13, 3:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Sep 13, 3:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case ..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Sep 12, 10:17 pm)