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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:29:08 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Recent x86-64 patch causes many devices to disappear
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> The problem is that most people cannot figure out how 
> to disable this in the BIOS so we needed a way to make it boot
> out of the box.

Agreed.


> Booting without PCI-X is better than booting with it.

May I suppose you mean "booting without PCI-X is better than not booting 
at all" ?  Booting with PCI-X is obviously better.


> Maybe we should only do this if PCI segmentation is disabled? 

May I suppose you mean "only do pci=noacpi if PCI segmentation is 
enabled" ?  That was my original proposal in the thread, in fact.....

	Jeff


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