Re: PCI Express

Grant Grundler
2005-03-07T23:31:03Z

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:40:42PM -0600, Colin Ngam wrote:
> I looked at Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt(linux-ia64-release-2.6.11) and
> it mentioned that CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC has to be configured. I did not
> find this configured on in any sample ia64 config files, but it does
> exist in defconfig for i386. Is this just an ia32 config option?

yes

> >I'm having trouble with the word "supported".
> >You have a PCI-E Bridge and firmware that can talk to it
> >hooked up to an ia64 box?
> Pretty soon.
> Is there any ia64 box with MSI and PCIE actually "activated and running"?

I've not seen anything published yet.

*Some* x86-64 boxes have working MSI (and PCI-E).
Recent PCI quirks have been submitted to flag the AMD chipsets that don't
support MSI or MSI-X.

grant