On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:51:10 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the spirit of commit 29cf7a30f8a0 ("x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS
> info on ASUS M2V-MX SE"), this DMI quirk turns on "pci_use_crs" by
> default on a board that needs it.
>
> This fixes boot failures and oopses introduced in 3e3da00c01d0
> ("x86/pci: AMD one chain system to use pci read out res"). The quirk
> is quite targetted (to a specific board and BIOS version) for two
> reasons:
>
> (1) to emphasize that this method of tackling the problem one quirk
> at a time is a little insane
>
> (2) to give BIOS vendors an opportunity to use simpler tables and
> allow us to return to generic behavior (whatever that happens to
> be) with a later BIOS update
>
> In other words, I am not at all happy with having quirks like this.
> But it is even worse for the kernel not to work out of the box on
> these machines, so...
Applied to my for-linus branch, thanks.
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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