On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:28 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > No! > > > > MMCONFIG will not work with acpi=off any more. > > I don't think this is unreasonable. The ACPI MCFG table is how we are > supposed to learn about the area in the first place. If we can't get the > table location via an approved mechanism, and can't validate it doesn't > overlap with another memory reservation or something, I really don't > think we should be using it.
We all know how correct ACPI tables are. Specifications are nice, reality tells a different story. > I don't think it's much of an issue anyway - the chances that somebody > will want to run without ACPI on a system with MCFG are pretty low given > that you'll end up losing a bunch of functionality (not least of which > is multi-cores). acpi=off is an often used debug switch and it _is_ quite useful. Taking away debug functionality is not a good idea. tglx - 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/