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SubjectRe: [git pull] PCI updates for 2.6.26
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On Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:26 pm Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > Nothing really major here: some bug fixes, documentation fixes and
> > some trivial stuff for 2.6.26. Some of the more important changes are
> > actually coming in through Ingo's "big box" tree, so the excitement
> > (and risk) level here should be pretty low.
>
> i see they are now both upstream and the combination mixed well :)
>
> there are a few other PCI items in x86.git btw that you might want to
> have a look at and which you might want to pick up into your tree - they
> dont really belong into x86.git.
>
> one would be the patch below - it gives us a boot option to enable a lot
> more port IO resource space on modern (large) systems, and increases the
> maximum number of PCI cards that Linux can support.
>
> given that true ISA cards with port decode mirroring problems are
> history on new systems, shouldnt this DMI opt-in feature be a
> default-enabled thing instead somehow? DMI really sucks for sane
> features, it does not scale at all as it always lags behind reality.
>
> Can we discover it in a robust way that the system has no chance for ISA
> cards and turn the tighter non-ISA alignment of port resources on
> automatically? [for cases where Linux does the port allocation and
> sizing]

Hm, there's some ISA stuff in ACPI, but I'm not sure how reliable that would
be... I'll take a look through some chipset manuals.

Jesse


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