Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755622Ab0A0U71 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:59:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755472Ab0A0U70 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:59:26 -0500 Received: from outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.11]:42605 "HELO outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755429Ab0A0U7Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:59:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=C4H8nfpflZelQa+rNvOC+HrWwKZXeXbt36S3jf04mWTeEGRs0f3MD8xKgci+hu+3ehjrc6gDSSmRisf7MpFgEdFEFEysDYE75GPfiZ1FAPJdTm33R0svraXawWBa0EmD; Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:59:05 -0800 From: Jesse Barnes To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , Yinghai Lu , Jeff Garrett , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Linux PCI , Myron Stowe , Matthew Garrett , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Bug #15124] PCI host bridge windows ignored (works with pci=use_crs) Message-ID: <20100127125905.17db320f@jbarnes-piketon> In-Reply-To: References: <201001270945.17113.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20100127085337.6ff06f6e@jbarnes-piketon> <201001271345.54454.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1511 Lines: 35 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:50:12 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > Without intel_bus.c, we essentially assume config 1 all the time. > > If we keep intel_bus.c and this patch for .33, things should work > > for configs 1 and 4. Adding support for config 4 is good. > > Quite frankly, is there any major downside to just disabling/removing > intel_bus.c for 2.6.33? If we're not planning on having it in the long run > anyway - or even if we are, but we can't be really happy about the state > of it as it would be in 2.6.33, not using it at all seems to be the > smaller headache. > > The machines that it helps are also the machines where you can fix things > up with 'use_csr', no? And they are pretty rare, and they didn't use to > work without that use_csr in 2.6.32 either, so it's not even a regression. > > Am I missing something? No that's the plan. intel_bus.c was a good effort, but it's just too different from what Windows does, and it'll always be behind. We'll disable it for 2.6.33 and try again to move to _CRS in 2.6.34 (but fixing the problem with large numbers of _CRS resources this time). -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/