Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:07:58 -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 10:59 AM, Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:45:57AM +0100, Ingo Molnar 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) > > Ingo, This is a great idea. I was the guy that added the whitelist > and ISA alignment avoidance code but have also been concerned about > the headache of keeping whitelist current in mainline and Distro > releases as new systems are introduced. When I made the change I > assumed (appearently incorrectly) that there were way too many > existing systems requiring the alignment to even consider the > blacklist approach. Do you have any suggestions on how to identify > systems to include in the blacklist? ...or would we just boldly make > non-alignment the default, provide an empty blacklist, and let > breakage identify those systems that need to be blacklisted?
at least to use blacklist with x86_64
YH
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