** Changed in: somerville
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: somerville
Status: New => Fix Released
** No longer affects: dell
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Title:
kernel: fix x86 DMI checks for PCI quirks
Status in The Linux Kernel:
Fix Released
Status in The Somerville Project:
Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Hardy:
Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Intrepid:
Fix Released
Bug description:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/2/205
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:19:34AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Matt Domsch <matt_dom...@dell.com> wrote:
> >
> > > fix x86 DMI checks for PCI quirks
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10583
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444791
> > >
> > > Since git commit 08f1c192c3c32797068bfe97738babb3295bbf42 (between
> > > kernels 2.6.22 and 2.6.23), arch/x86/pci/acpi.c has not called
> > > pcibios_scan_root(), which would have called
> > > arch/x86/pci/common.c:dmi_check_system(). This has prevented the
> > > quirks listed in pciprobe_dmi_table[] from being checked and
> > > appropriate action taken.
> >
> > ugh ...
> >
> >
> > > This manifests itself in several Dell and HP servers not automatically
> > > having the pci=bfsort option be applied, as well as Samsung X20 and
> > > Compaq EVO N800c systems needing pci=assign-all-busses was no longer
> > > automatically applied.
> >
> > Jesse Barnes (new PCI maintainer) Cc:-ed.
>
> please check the patch in x86.git, it should do the same thing, but
> put the call in pci_access_init...
>
> commit 9817aa147000086bc11b571620ecc1c73a4a614b
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.ker...@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon Apr 14 15:40:37 2008 -0700
Indeed it does (boot tested on one of the affected systems), and is a
simpler patch. I'd be quite happy with this. Bonus that it's already
in the x86.git tree. :-)
Ingo, is this ready to go to Linus?
Now to get it backported to -stable...
Adding the folks from HP who have lots of systems listed.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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