add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch

This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether to use mmconfig or not fail.

Quoted 3 lines · On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200 Edgar Hucek <[email protected]> wrote:

This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether to use mmconfig or not fail.

Sorry, you cannot do this. I already merged this patch into -mm, and followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.

Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which Adrian and I prepared.

If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to Linus. But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed doesn't help anyone.

Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions. See section 2 of
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.

Thanks.

Quoted 18 lines · Andrew Morton

Quoted 3 lines · On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200 Edgar Hucek <[email protected]> wrote:

This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether to use mmconfig or not fail.

Sorry, you cannot do this. I already merged this patch into -mm, and followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.

Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which Adrian and I prepared.

If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to Linus. But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed doesn't help anyone.

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Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions. See section 2 of
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.

Thanks.

I see only one bugfix patch in your patches ( add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch ) which is now included in this patch.

Quoted 18 lines · On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:26:15 +0200 Edgar Hucek <[email protected]> wrote:

Quoted 17 lines · Andrew Morton

Quoted 3 lines · On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200 Edgar Hucek <[email protected]> wrote:

This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether to use mmconfig or not fail.

Sorry, you cannot do this. I already merged this patch into -mm, and followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.

Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which Adrian and I prepared.

If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to Linus. But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed doesn't help anyone.

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Quoted 5 lines

Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions. See section 2 of
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.

Thanks.

I see only one bugfix patch in your patches ( add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch ) which is now included in this patch.

I presently have

add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch
add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix-2.patch

and

add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86.patch
add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-tidy.patch
add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix.patch
add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix-2.patch

all of which you should have been cc'ed on.

Anyway, unless there's a rush on this work, please check that everything looks OK in -mm as we head into 2.6.19-rc1.