Re: [PATCH] PCI bus number management

From: Julian Stecklina <jsteckli_at_os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:43:51 +0100
On 02/06/2014 08:37 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> I would like to commit this to HEAD soon but thought I would post it for some 
> pre-commit testing for the brave. :)  If you are really brave, try booting 
> with 'hw.pci.clear_buses=1' which will force the kernel to renumber all buses 
> in the system.

This is a really bad idea, because BIOS/SMM tends to have those
hardcoded. Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this patch?

Julian


Received on Fri Feb 07 2014 - 11:44:05 UTC

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