RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:22, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> Here is a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only.
> 

Do not seem to patch even against 2.5.66 ...

> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:zwane@linuxpower.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:54 PM
> To: Nakajima, Jun
> Cc: Nguyen, Tom L; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Saxena, Sunil; Mallick,
> Asit K; Carbonari, Steven
> Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> 
> > That's a good idea, and that's the way we did this (we added MSI 
> > support on top of the vector-based indexing). If people are interested in 
> > the vector-based indexing (i.e. provide the vector number to device 
> > drivers (non-legacy drivers only) instead of IRQ) for some other uses, we 
> > would like to discuss possible cleaner implementations.
> > 
> > Long will post a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only. 
> 
> Thanks! It'd be a lot easier to test the core changes too. What do you 
> mean by non legacy?
> 
> 	Zwane
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Martin Schlemmer