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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@domain.hid>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Stuck MSI in normal Linux driver
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-03-02 16:26, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > Richard Cochran wrote:
> >> The wiki pages 
> >>
> >>    http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs
> >>    http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/Configuring_x86_kernels
> >>
> >> say not to enable MSI on x86, with a link to a very old (2008)
> >> discussion.

...

> The current situation looks like this:
>  - MSI[-X] usage for plain Linux drivers is fine, we are using it on
>    machines where you can hardly avoid MSI today
>  - MSI[-X] usage for RTDM (ie. RT) drivers is basically fine as long as
>    you avoid enabling/disabling from RT context (also used for quite
>    a while here, no known issues under this restriction)

Okay, so I understand from this:

1. The wiki warning is out of date.

2. My own PCIe MSI driver/card *should* work.
   (It is not a current known limitation of adeos/xenomai.)

Thanks,

Richard