From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13] x86: check host bridge when applying vendor quirks
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 04:47:09 +0200
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On Friday 09 September 2005 04:33, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> I was looking at the i386 ACPI early quirk code and x86_64 equivalent
> and it seems to me it should be checking the host bridge vendor, not
> the one for various PCI bridges.  Nvidia might release some kind of
> PCI card with an embedded bridge that would break this code, for
> example.  I made this patch but I can't test it:

It's wrong. On AMD K8 systems the host bridge is always from
AMD because the Northbridge is part of the CPU.

-Andi
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