From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751379AbWGJIt2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:49:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751377AbWGJIt1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:49:27 -0400 Received: from a222036.upc-a.chello.nl ([62.163.222.36]:56212 "EHLO laptopd505.fenrus.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbWGJIt0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:49:26 -0400 Subject: RE: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Brown, Len" Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@redhat.com, Reuben Farrelly , "Randy.Dunlap" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:48:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1152521329.4874.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:47 -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > >> 2. Onto some more minor warnings: > >> > >> ACPI: bus type pci registered > >> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved > >> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. > >> PCI: Using configuration type 1 > >> ACPI: Interpreter enabled > >> > >> Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug > >there? If it is, is there anyone within Intel or are there any > >known contacts > >who can push and poke > to get this looked at/fixed? > >(It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get it right..). > > Arjan should probably comment on that one. I could.. but please next time if you want to CC me use an email address I actually read ;) Greg has a patch to relax this check, and Rajesh has a further patch to relax it more. However, to a large degree we cannot relax it too much without breaking the reason this check is there: detect a buggy MCFG table and not crash and burn later on, but rather just not use it.