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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-09-26 10:52:41 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 10:52:41 +0200
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[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses happen for some non existent devices. i386/x86-64 do some early device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early accesses which are always type1. This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter. I don't think this can break anything because it only changes a single global that is only used by PCI. Cc: gregkh@suse.de Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 71d05f481727..4ae99f6e9938 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1240,7 +1240,11 @@ running once the system is up.
bootloader. This is currently used on
IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
-
+ noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
+ This might help on some broken boards which
+ machine check when some devices' config space
+ is read. But various workarounds are disabled
+ and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
pd. [PARIDE]