Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756106AbZGIVTN (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:19:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754137AbZGIVTA (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:19:00 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.210.175]:62528 "EHLO mail-yx0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753270AbZGIVS7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:18:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PFSu79z4LPLX0iuNHPlKpMeLTt0yq3B4dU2/fIIq6E0HMRIgk4zNW6mvSl4qD1r5Ht Z0P9HnK+TETKQ8UbZQas77+RPxibHV6s2ZDjCbxHc5nZE8gs0MwUIwn1MsPcY2HfR82S VGMA+ab57XZjf+i3FFJv1BNTLszpOSDs3uhnU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1247172044.3898.147.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <20090630180300.GA9971@ldl.fc.hp.com> <4A4A5B01.9040200@kernel.org> <20090703225708.GA30664@ldl.fc.hp.com> <4A4FADDC.30606@kernel.org> <20090709185945.GG2613@ldl.fc.hp.com> <4A564263.5010305@kernel.org> <4A564634.1020708@kernel.org> <4A564990.3060202@kernel.org> <1247172044.3898.147.camel@mulgrave.site> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:36 -0700 Message-ID: <86802c440907091412n3157775ft4c025aab595923ad@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: mptsas, msi and the dl585 g2 From: Yinghai Lu To: James Bottomley Cc: dann frazier , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 29 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 12:48 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> [ ? ?4.333140] ? PREFETCH window: 0x00000000d9f00000-0x00000000d9ffffff >> are all directed to one 8132 PCI-X bridge. >> >> the the IOAPIC for 9, 10, 11... falling that range... >> >> we need one better to allocate range for that pci-x bridge to aovide ioapic BAR allocated... >> >> anyway your BIOS sucks. > > It's a sad and very annoying fact of life that most BIOSs suck. ?If they > didn't suck, our bios handling code wouldn't be a nasty mess of > exceptions, work arounds and quirks. > > Can we fix this so that both the DL585 and the opteron multi root stuff > can work? ?There's a large population of DL585's out there, so we can't > release 2.6.32 like this ... and I'd rather not have to choose between > breaking the DL585's and breaking the Sun Opterons. sure. will send out one patch after get some sanity test here. 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/