On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:47 -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > >> 2. Onto some more minor warnings: > >> > >> ACPI: bus type pci registered > >> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved > >> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. > >> PCI: Using configuration type 1 > >> ACPI: Interpreter enabled > >> > >> Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug > >there? If it is, is there anyone within Intel or are there any > >known contacts > >who can push and poke > to get this looked at/fixed? > >(It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get it right..). > > Arjan should probably comment on that one. I could.. but please next time if you want to CC me use an email address I actually read ;) Greg has a patch to relax this check, and Rajesh has a further patch to relax it more. However, to a large degree we cannot relax it too much without breaking the reason this check is there: detect a buggy MCFG table and not crash and burn later on, but rather just not use it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
