Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Ignore the upper bits of SystemIO addresses

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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> I think this is a good idea.  But it makes me a little bit nervous
> to change addresses supplied by the firmware without any user-visible
> indication at all.  Is it worth doing a WARN_ONCE() sort of thing
> when we truncate?

That doesn't seem unreasonable, but do we have anything equivalent to 
that in the acpica code right now?

> I know you experimented quite a bit to confirm that Windows does this
> sort of masking.  Do you have any notes about that experimentation
> that would be useful to add to the bugzilla?

Sure. I'll do that.

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