On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:20:56AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > BIOS guys also said that fam 10h need mmconfig via eax accessing, may > > need OS do sth, so it is safe to stay with MCFG entry for SB like > > mcp55... > > > > but latest kernel already have that workaround to make mmconfig via eax... > > > > This is actually a good point. Since the CPU vendor managed to > completely fuck up the operation of MMCONFIG itself on this CPU (it's a > *MEMORY REFERENCE*, guys!), it is actually to be expected and prudent > that BIOS vendors will drop the MCFG entry. MMCONFIG doesn't actually > work on this CPU for any system software which doesn't already know to > work around this particular piece of severe braindamage;
But wait, isn't it true that Vista is using MCFG? So, poor BIOS guys what should they do now? If you have a special problem here why not upgrading your Linux kernel? > standards-complicant MMCONFIG isn't supported at all. And yes, it is complicated to follow your argumentation. Andreas - 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/
