On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:49 -0700 Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:10:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > PCI: skip release and reallocation of io port resources > > > > Gaah. This still looks like just total ad-hoc hackery. The logic for > > it all seems very fragile, just a random case made up from the one > > failing issue. There's no underlying logic or design to it. > > > > I still think that we should just make people explicitly ask for a > > blank slate if the bios allocations don't work out. > > and interactively allocate resource? No I don't think we want to add any prompts to the kernel boot process. :) > > Rather than trying > > to fix it up automatically, which has been a total rats nest of random > > crud. > > Can Yinghai Lu's patch 'pci=try=' be some temporary middle ground till > a more elaborate patch is found? > > His suggestion partly meets your suggestion. It does not automatically > reassign unless the user explicitly asks for it. Hence should not > break any working systems, at the same time can handle system like > mine. pci=try just doesn't communicate much, it should be something like pci=override_bios and do as Linus suggests. But we should continue to shoot for not ever having to use that option on normal systems. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
