From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030480AbWFVBcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030482AbWFVBcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:32:25 -0400 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:13780 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030480AbWFVBcY (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:32:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:32:22 -0700 From: Greg Lindahl To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Garzik , Dave Olson , Brice Goglin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ Message-ID: <20060622013222.GF2614@greglaptop.internal.keyresearch.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Dave Olson , Brice Goglin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, discuss@x86-64.org References: <200606211837.30056.ak@suse.de> <20060622012339.GD2614@greglaptop.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060622012339.GD2614@greglaptop.internal.keyresearch.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Frumious: Bandersnatch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Because I don't think normal Linux users should be in the hardware validation > business. If the vendor says it's not tested we shouldn't enable it by default. All you're going to do is piss off all the distros and hardare vendors shipping systems with this chip in it. Nvidia is not the only "vendor" involved, and is not the only one doing hardware validation. Sun, HP, Newisys, and LNXI all have currently shipping Opteron products with a CK804. All 4 are probably going to want your employer's distro to not disable MSI. -- greg