From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Ignore MCFG if the mmconfig area isn't reserved in thee820 table
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:48:19 +0100
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On Friday 24 March 2006 16:42, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > In theory they should be the same. What do you think is different?
> 
> in practice the x86-64 version returns "success" if there is one byte in the entire
> memory range that complies with the requested type, even if the rest of the range is
> of another type. 

I would consider that a bug. Please send fix.

-Andi
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