Re: PCI Express

Colin Ngam
2005-03-07T20:40:42Z

Grant Grundler wrote:

Hi Grant,

Thanks for your respond.

>On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:42:08PM -0600, Colin Ngam wrote:
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>>Is MSI/MSIX support available for ia64?
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>Yes
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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?

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>>Are PCIE devices supported in ia
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>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?
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Pretty soon.

Is there any ia64 box with MSI and PCIE actually "activated and running"?

Thanks.

colin

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>Anyway, linux has some PCI-E support in the generic PCI code.
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>>A pointer to any documentations with regards to PCIE and ia64 will
>>be very much appreciated.
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>I don't think anything ia64 or linux specific exists.
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>grant
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