On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:21:13 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > After I sent my last message I realized the same thing... though I > > occasionally hear people talk about removing it (I seriously doubt that > > will ever happen). I don't even think there's a way to disable type 1 > > config access on Intel chipsets... > > Considering that the chipsets still have support for features that > *really* aren't used (and haven't been used in over a decade), I doubt the > conf1 thing is going away any time soon. > > Things like: A20 gate, 15-16MB holes, i387 FP exception on irq 13 are > totally pointless in this day and age. Things like the DMA controller are > getting there, along with PS/2 keyboard support. > > So there's a lot of things that are likely to be removed before conf1 > accesses would. Removing CONF1 accesses would break every single current > OS, they'll do that ten years from now at the earliest.
So what do you think? You ok with enabling mmconfig if it's available as long as we use type 1 accesses for non-extended stuff? If so, I think the patches are pretty much ready... Thanks, Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
