Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/PCI: quirk Thunderbolt PCI-to-PCI bridges

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:17:57PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 02:15:56PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:22:10 +0300
> > Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > +	if (!(pci_probe & PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS)) {
> > > +		pr_info("Thunderbolt host router detected disabling ROMs\n");
> > > +		pci_probe |= PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS;
> > > +	}
> > 
> > I wonder if this should just be the default on x86?  Or do we allocate
> > ROM space to address some other platform where we need it and the BIOS
> > doesn't do it for the devices we care about?
> 
> Good question. In our case it definitely helps to have pci=norom the
> default. Can't tell if it might break something that depends on the current
> behaviour.
> 
> Bjorn, Greg, Rafael,
> 
> What do you think?

I can't recall any specific reason to not do this, so no objection from
me, but make it a nice and small patch that can easily be reverted if
problems show up in the wild :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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