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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:58:39 +0100
From: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@men.de>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: FSL MSI Mapping
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:51:57PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 18:06 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got notified about your patch to support multiple MSI Vectors on Freescale
> > PowerPC platforms. Is there any reason why it wasn't applied until now? I
> > couldn't find anything about it in the list archives.
> >
> > I think it would be a real benefit for all to have multiple MSI vecotrs on
> > PowerPCs.
>
> Why would you not use MSI-X ?
>

Simply because our hardware only supports MSI.