From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:45:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register Message-Id: <20060316234521.GC9746@esmail.cup.hp.com> List-Id: References: <44172F0E.6070708@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060314134535.72eb7243.akpm@osdl.org> <44176502.9050109@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060315235544.GA6504@suse.de> <44198210.6090109@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060316181934.GM13666@sgi.com> <4419BD64.5070705@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060316194155.GP13666@sgi.com> <20060316232837.GA12408@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Roland Dreier Cc: Greg KH , Mark Maule , Jun'ichi Nomura , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, shaohua.li@intel.com On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:37:22PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > I think we really want to make drivers/pci/msi.c less platform-specific. > Both powerpc and sparc64 are starting to pay attention to MSI, so we > should really be trying to move things in the direction of a clean > separation of generic MSI handling and Intel-specific bits. Matthew Wilcox and I have previously volunteered to get MSI working on parisc arch. parisc, like systems with Local SAPIC, only operates on transaction based interrupts at the CPU level. We need an arch hook to set the target address of the CPU instead of looking at ID/EID bits but haven't proposed anything concrete yet. My understanding is SGI needs the same thing for Altix/SN2 platforms. thanks, grant