Re: [patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc5)

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From: Linus Torvalds

Subject: Re: [patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc5)

Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 - 10:14 am

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> so zero-extending the result in the PCI-BIOS read routine fixes the 
> regression on my laptop. ( It might fix some other long-standing issues 
> we had with PCI-BIOS during the past decade ... ) Both 8-bit and 16-bit 
> accesses were buggy.

Oh, wow. That must have been there forever, but very few people probably 
ever cared.

And why is your laptop using the BIOS routines anyway? Or was that just a 
result of your randconfig having turned off the sane config access 
routines?

		Linus
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Linux 2.6.25-rc5, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Mar 9, 10:42 pm)

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc5, charles gagalac, (Sun Mar 9, 11:05 pm)

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc5, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Mar 10, 7:45 am)

[patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc5), Ingo Molnar, (Mon Mar 10, 10:04 am)

Re: [patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.2 ..., Linus Torvalds, (Mon Mar 10, 10:14 am)

Re: [patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.2 ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Mar 10, 10:24 am)

Re: [patch] fix ACPI boot regression (was: Re: Linux 2.6.2 ..., Len Brown, (Mon Mar 10, 11:04 pm)


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