The following two patches fix several problems caused by BIOSes that
report PNP motherboard device resources that overlap with PCI BARs.
I think these should go in before 2.6.25 because some of these problems
showed up in 2.6.24 when we increased PNP_MAX_MEM from 4 to 12, and
there's no good way to work around them.
Bjorn
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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:24 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> The following two patches fix several problems caused by BIOSes that
> report PNP motherboard device resources that overlap with PCI BARs.
>
> I think these should go in before 2.6.25 because some of these problems
> showed up in 2.6.24 when we increased PNP_MAX_MEM from 4 to 12, and
> there's no good way to work around them.
I cannot judge about the "cleanness" because of possible changes of
initialization time of pci/pnp or whatever.
I can confirm that ACPI resource declarations (especially (only?) in the
general motherboard devices) are often rather broken.
Therefore I like your general approach compared to the per machine dmi
match quirks. I expect the latter (dmi matching) is rather hopeless.
Thomas