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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG [try #1]
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:21 +0200
Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> wrote:

> This Patch add force for mmconfig.
> On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives
> a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG
> provides. This makes the chack wether
> to use mmconfig or not fail.

Why do we want to do this?  Are the ACPI-provided tables incorrect?  If so,
what problems are caused by this?