Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add MCFG table for ACPI

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Linux has this kind of protection, because when BIOS is too broken, > boot will freeze. So this check check if BIOS is sane. I've seen the same fundamental issue in other kernels, where BIOS is relied on as the only true way for the x

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add MCFG table for ACPI

2007-09-29 Thread Rudolf Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After nice nine hour sleep ... The problem is that LXB tables for memory are constructed only from regions which are OK not which are reserved. So there is currently no way how to pass the reserved regions to LXB tables and to FILO which also looks on

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add MCFG table for ACPI

2007-09-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 29.09.2007 03:17, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 29.09.2007 02:05, Rudolf Marek wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Following patch adds MCFG table for ACPI, so linux can find MMCONFIG area for >> PCI configuration access. >> >> Please note that you need to hack Linux kernel and remove the check for e820

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add MCFG table for ACPI

2007-09-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 29.09.2007 02:05, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hello, > > Following patch adds MCFG table for ACPI, so linux can find MMCONFIG area for > PCI configuration access. > > Please note that you need to hack Linux kernel and remove the check for e820 > not > reserved complain. > > Signed-off-by: Rudolf M

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add MCFG table for ACPI

2007-09-28 Thread Rudolf Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Following patch adds MCFG table for ACPI, so linux can find MMCONFIG area for PCI configuration access. Please note that you need to hack Linux kernel and remove the check for e820 not reserved complain. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <[EMAIL PR