Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758854AbXEWVdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 17:33:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756675AbXEWVc4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 17:32:56 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:37629 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756520AbXEWVcz (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 17:32:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:35:13 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Jesse Barnes , Linus Torvalds , Robert Hancock , Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert , Len Brown Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources Message-ID: <20070523223513.7dbb89f4@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <4654AD91.1030808@pobox.com> References: <4635510D.4060103@shaw.ca> <200705231349.56976.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <200705231403.24439.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <4654AD91.1030808@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 20 > One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from > traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space in > PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy PCI > config space. Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the config space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your favourite movie company and video card vendor... > Expect that to change, as MS shakes out the bugs (or maybe we are doing > their job for them?). The longer it takes - the better. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/