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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #16809, comment 2

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1	1	There is a discussion about this issue over on the osdev forums here: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32039
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3		The area we are talking about is the Memory Mapped (not I/O port) area that allows the OS to access the PCI configuration space.
	3	The area we are talking about is the Memory Mapped (not I/O port) area that allows the OS to access the PCI configuration space. (The 64-bit value located at 44 bytes on the MCFG table.)
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5	5	The problem with not including this area in the memory map (as reserved) is that the OS may try to use this area to assign PCI device base addresses. It has no way of knowing that this area is not available for PCI device assignment.