MMCONFIG - What does this initials stand for?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:52:01PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For a long time, I have always seen this error when Linux is booting but
> never got around figuring what the heck it all meant. So today, I spent and
> hour or so just trying to figure out what the heck this so common error
> meant.
> 
> I can say I have a good idea now on what MMCONFIG has to do with - PCI
> configuration space access. Wonder though any body know the politics behind
> this problem. From Linux post at the bottom of this email, it looks like
> there is a lot I am still missing. Understandably as I do not follow
> hardware trends closely.
> 
> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area is not E820-reserved
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
> 
> 
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/23/6
> 
> http://developer.amd.com/Assets/pci%20-%20pci%20express%20configuration%20space%20access.pdf

At least one of my machines say that, and no I never did look into it.
Seems like a rather common bug.

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Len Sorensen
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