Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:06:09 +0800
From: Wang Zhenyu <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com>
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       thayne@realmsys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/15] EDAC: i82875p cleanup
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On 2006.03.04 02:47:01 +0000, Dave Peterson wrote:
> 
>    On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
>    > Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote:
>    > >  +#ifdef CORRECT_BIOS
>    > >  +fail0:
>    > >  +#endif
>    >
>    > What is CORRECT_BIOS?  Is the fact that it's never defined some sort of
>    > commentary?  ;)
>    I'm not sure about this.  I'm cc'ing Thayne Harbaugh and Wang Zhenyu since
>    their names are in the credits for the i82875p module.  Maybe they can
>    provide some info.

You can take CORRECT_BIOS as "strict-pci-resource-reserve" for overflow device
in 82875p, some bad BIOS does make it reserved, which cause pci_request_region()
failed.  Actually we never defined it. 

zhen
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