Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPImotherboard resources

[Alan Cox]

> One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from 
> traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space in 
> PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy PCI 
> config space.

Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the config
space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your favourite
movie company and video card vendor...

> Expect that to change, as MS shakes out the bugs (or maybe we are doing 
> their job for them?).

The longer it takes - the better.

Alan
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