On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > > So here's my proposal for .37: > - Keep the current state of _CRS enabled by default (for 2008 > and newer machines). > - Allocate bottom-up always > - Avoid E820 reservations Sounds sane to me. And yes, the fact that the BIOS tends to allocate things top-down probably does mean that the whole bottom-up approach tends to be the safer model. Linus -- 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