Re: [PATCH] pci: enable MSI on 8132

Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-21T07:50:19Z

Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Is there a reason why we can't just enable the HT MSI mapping for any bridge
> device that has that PCI capability and is underneath an HT bridge?

The code should be under CONFIG_X86 because the rules for enabling HT MSI mappings
are different for other architectures. But otherwise I can't think of a reason.

> Essentially
> the code for nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk could potentially be applied to all bridges as
> it is currently for NVIDIA and ALi bridges..

Sounds like it would save a fair amount of grief.

Eric