On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Ivan's patch doesn't start enabling MMCONFIG in more places than we > currently do. It makes us use conf1 accesses for all accesses below > 256 bytes. That fixes all known problems to date.
.. and I agree with that patch. But there will be people who try to access extended space by mistake, and they'll have a hard-locked machine or something. > > Tell me what *other* armor plating you could have that actually works? > > The armour plating that already exists -- pci=nommconf. No. It needs to be automatic, OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Ie we disable the unsafe feature on purpose, and then force people who access it to do so *consciously*. Extended config space is different, for chissake! It's not even like it's just a bigger normal config space where normal config accesses just overflow into it. It really does have different rules etc. Linus -- 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/