Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:13:46 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
       tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       rajesh.shah@intel.com, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: MCFG ACPI patch in git-x86 causes boot regression
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* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

> > On previous kernels the MCFG was rejected because it wasn't e820 
> > reserved:
> 
> Yep, this patch (as was stated many times) requires other fixes to PCI 
> probing--either disabling decode, not using mmconfig unless absolutely 
> required, or one of the other discussed changes.  I'm not sure why it 
> was pushed before one of those changes went in.

yeah - we try to pick up patches early into x86.git, so that integration 
issues can be found as early as possible. But this patch should live in 
Greg's tree - just sent it back.

	Ingo
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