Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:10:37 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines. |
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [PATCH] x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines. > > > > so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards. > > > > also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with > > acpi. it could spare some calling when we have several peer root > > buses. > > i like this feature, and i've applied your patch to x86.git for testing, > but i'd like to hear what the ACPI and PCI guys think about this. > > Also, we should try as hard as possible to make it a blacklist instead > of a whitelist? It would be cool to support more PCI cards/devices on > all new(-ish) systems by default and if we didnt have to maintain the > DMI whitelist for eternity. (a whitelist will always be incomplete and > will lag behind reality)
yeah, blacklist is more good. that limitation is quite old...
YH
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