Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754542AbXFDMM7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752588AbXFDMMw (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:12:52 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:3994 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752362AbXFDMMw (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:12:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:12:50 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] 1/2: MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources Message-ID: <20070604121250.GA33621@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , Linus Torvalds References: <465CF794.1070406@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <465CF794.1070406@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 17 On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:03:32PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > -Validate that the area is reserved even if we read it from the > chipset directly and not from the MCFG table. This catches the case > where the BIOS didn't set the location properly in the chipset and > has mapped it over other things it shouldn't have. Just for the record, I still fundamentally disagree with that part. You're not catching what you think you're catching, since the chipset tells you what it is going to decode as mmconfig, no matter what is connected to it. OG. - 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/