Revision fe0e5c4d947d34f10002b4cf272f0ebf110305b7 authored by Andrew Morton on 22 December 2006, 09:11:36 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 22 December 2006, 16:55:51 UTC
Linus sayeth: Google knows everything, and finds, on MS own site no less: "Windows 2000 default resources: One 4K memory window One 2 MB memory window Two 256-byte I/O windows" which is clearly utterly bogus and insufficient. But Microsoft apparently realized this, and: "Windows XP default resources: Because one memory window of 4K and one window of 2 MB are not sufficient for CardBus controllers in many configurations, Windows XP allocates larger memory windows to CardBus controllers where possible. However, resource windows are static (that is, the operating system does not dynamically allocate larger memory windows if new devices appear.) Under Windows XP, CardBus controllers will be assigned the following resources: One 4K memory window, as in Windows 2000 64 MB memory, if that amount of memory is available. If 64 MB is not available the controller will receive 32 MB; if 32 MB is not available, the controller will receive 16 MB; if 16 MB is not available, the bridge will receive 8 MB; and so on down to a minimum assignment of 1 MB in configurations where memory is too constrained for the operating system to provide a larger window. Two 256-byte I/O windows" So I think we have our answer. Windows uses one 4k window, and one 64MB window. And they are no more dynamic than we are (we _could_ try to do it dynamically, but let's face it, it's fairly painful to dynamically expand PCI bus resources - you may need to reprogram everything up to the root, so it would be absolutely crazy to do that unless you have some serious masochistic tendencies). So let's just increase our default value to 64M too. Cc: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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REPORTING-BUGS
[Some of this is taken from Frohwalt Egerer's original linux-kernel FAQ]
What follows is a suggested procedure for reporting Linux bugs. You
aren't obliged to use the bug reporting format, it is provided as a guide
to the kind of information that can be useful to developers - no more.
If the failure includes an "OOPS:" type message in your log or on
screen please read "Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" before posting your
bug report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information
to make it useful to the recipient.
Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to
be involved with the problem. Don't worry too much about getting the
wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the
code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and
describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself.
The list of maintainers is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.
See Documentation/SecurityBugs for more information.
If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. (For more information on the linux-kernel
mailing list see http://www.tux.org/lkml/).
This is a suggested format for a bug report sent to the Linux kernel mailing
list. Having a standardized bug report form makes it easier for you not to
overlook things, and easier for the developers to find the pieces of
information they're really interested in. Don't feel you have to follow it.
First run the ver_linux script included as scripts/ver_linux, which
reports the version of some important subsystems. Run this script with
the command "sh scripts/ver_linux".
Use that information to fill in all fields of the bug report form, and
post it to the mailing list with a subject of "PROBLEM: <one line
summary from [1.]>" for easy identification by the developers.
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
[3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
[4.] Kernel information
[4.1.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
[4.2.] Kernel .config file:
[5.] Most recent kernel version which did not have the bug:
[6.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information
resolved (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt)
[7.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the
problem (if possible)
[8.] Environment
[8.1.] Software (add the output of the ver_linux script here)
[8.2.] Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo):
[8.3.] Module information (from /proc/modules):
[8.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information (/proc/ioports, /proc/iomem)
[8.5.] PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root)
[8.6.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi)
[8.7.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem
(please look in /proc and include all information that you
think to be relevant):
[X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds:
Thank you
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