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Bug#284111: xserver-xfree86: Doesn't scan PCI domains above 0000 on startup



On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:18:29AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:01:27 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said:
> 
>   Branden> Yes; I apologize for hastily dismissing your report.  The
>   Branden> fix is probably a for and a break away, but I think I will
>   Branden> CC David Mosberger on this message, as he almost certainly
>   Branden> has more clues to bring to the table than I do.
> 
>   Branden> I wonder how many domains we should look for before we give
>   Branden> up.  I get the feeling doing an ftw() on /proc/pci/pci is
>   Branden> not a good idea.  Even doing as much as a readdir() feels
>   Branden> wrong, but maybe not.  :-P
> 
> Hmmh, my patch didn't change the behavior as far as domains are
> concerned.  The old code also looked only at domain 0, IIRC.
> 
> I'm not terribly familiar with multi-domain machines.  From what I
> recall, the domain-changes to /proc/bus/pci were SPARC-specific and
> I'm not sure whether that approach is the final answer.  I cc'd Bjorn
> Helgaas and Alex Williamson in case they want to comment, since they
> have more experience with large/multi-domain Itanium machines.

Bjorn and Alex,

Can you comment on this problem?  The full bug log is available at:

http://bugs.debian.org/284111

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