Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758902AbYGRQ3c (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754525AbYGRQ3Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:25 -0400 Received: from bromo.msbb.uc.edu ([129.137.3.146]:51980 "HELO bromo.msbb.uc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753320AbYGRQ3Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:23 -0400 From: Jack Howarth To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , "jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel Message-ID: <20080718162923.GA6100@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> References: <20080717034418.GA18951@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <86802c440807162113g4cea3bd9ic71210330417032b@mail.gmail.com> <20080717061825.GA19582@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <86802c440807162348m6d05b912x7b3f655d7f9efb93@mail.gmail.com> <20080718011532.GA30920@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <86802c440807171825m24ffe140o81bb76286823568e@mail.gmail.com> <20080718060935.GA32345@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <86802c440807172322s5dabbd1bx297742d782e373d6@mail.gmail.com> <20080718120930.GA2916@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <86802c440807180919id6220ecqe0a25b2a94dc39c0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86802c440807180919id6220ecqe0a25b2a94dc39c0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 28 YH, I'll file a radar bug report on this with Apple but wouldn't hold my breath for them to fix the firmware. Also, it would be a good idea to encourage all of the folks using 2.6.26 on Macintel to watch out for the "MMCONFIG not used" message in their dmesg and report that to you. I strongly suspect that the MacBook Pro v2 isn't the only model with broken firmware. Jack On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > YH, > > Do you see anything in the pci earlydump and the associated lspci --vvxxxx > > output that sheds any light on why we have to clean up the dmi with your > > mmconfig patch on a MacBookPro2? I am wondering if the BIOS information is > > being misused by the linux kernel or if the BIOS is just buggy. > > BIOS is buggy. it said it need 0-255, but only reserve address range > for 64 buses > > will resend patch to Ingo and Jesse, > > YH -- 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/