From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751305AbWH1Ird (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:47:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751311AbWH1Ird (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:47:33 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41162 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbWH1Irc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:47:32 -0400 Subject: Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, henti@geekware.co.za In-Reply-To: References: <20060828102149.26b05e8b@yoda.foad.za.net> <1156754346.3034.167.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:47:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1156754850.3034.169.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:43 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven writes: > > > > this is the known bug where by default Linux uses the BIOS services for > > PCI rather than the native method. > > It's a BIOS bug if the PCI BIOS doesn't work, not a Linux bug. it's a bios bug if it doesn't work. it's a linux mistake to depend on the bios for this in the first place (since other OSes don't use this afaik) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com