Greg KH wrote:
Sure, I realize this, but it solves the problem in one way for broken hardware, such that it at least allows it to work, right? It also provides a better incentive for the manufacturer to fix their bios, which as you are on-site at HP, it would seem odd that they would just not do that instead of trying to work around this in the kernel... thanks, greg k-h
I don't think that many OEMs have that much control over the BIOS in their "value lines". :) And the MMCONFIG problem with enterprise systems and workstations, where we do control the BIOS (for the most part), is due to known bugs in certain versions of certain chipsets, HT1000, AMD8132, among them, not the BIOS. Anyway, we are devising better ways to deal with these anomalies than blacklists and telling customers to use "pci=nommconf" And we're bringing them to the community for discussion, improvement, and, we hope, acceptance. -- 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/
