On Wednesday, January 3, 2007 5:53 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:01 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Using MMCONFIG for PCI config space access is simply an > > optimization, not a requirement. Therefore, when it can't be used, > > there's no need for KERN_ERR level message. This patch makes the > > message a KERN_INFO instead to reduce some of the noise in a kernel > > boot with the 'quiet' option. (Note that this has no effect on a > > normal boot, which is ridiculously verbose these days.) > > this is wrong, please leave this loud complaint in...
So the issues as I understand them: o some BIOSes are broken and don't properly map MCFG space (though according to Petr V. reserving MCFG space in e820 is optional, so the test may be slightly wrong as-is) o MCFG space is required for (many) PCIe devices (any regular PCI devices?) o often, there's nothing the user can do to address the points above So where does that leave us? I've got what I consider to be a stupid error message in my log. My system behavior isn't affected in any way (at least that I can tell), yet I get a loud complaint at boot time. I guess I just have to live with it? 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/