Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:41:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd |
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > in old kernel, after BAR3 request_filed, pci_assigned_unassigned > should get update resource for that... but it could find that big > space for it.
Exactly. So what happens is that it doesn't actually re-allocate it at all. Not that it is necessarily even possible - it's quite possible that that field is effectively locked some way and is read-only. Without knowing the chipset details, we can only guess.
Linus
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