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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dave Olson <olson@unixfolk.com>
Cc: Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>,
	discuss@x86-64.org, Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Lindahl <greg.lindahl@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:37:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606211837.30056.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0606210920170.30013@osa.unixfolk.com>

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:21, Dave Olson wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> | "Allen Martin" <AMartin@nvidia.com> writes:
> | 
> | > > 
> | > > NForce4 PCI Express is an unknown - we'll see how that works.
> | > > 
> | > 
> | > MSI is not officially supported on nForce4 and hasn't been fully tested.
> | 
> | Ok thanks for the information. We should definitely disable it by default
> | then, maybe with an boot option so that the speed-over-stability crowd
> | can enable it (+ possibly an oops taint bit) 
> 
> Why disable it, when it's clearly working?  

Because I don't think normal Linux users should be in the hardware validation
business. If the vendor says it's not tested we shouldn't enable it by default.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-21 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21  4:42 [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ Allen Martin
2006-06-21 10:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-21 16:21   ` Dave Olson
2006-06-21 16:37     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20060622012339.GD2614@greglaptop.internal.keyresearch.com>
2006-06-22  1:32         ` Greg Lindahl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-23 15:43 Naren (Narendra) Sankar
     [not found] <fa.5FgZbVFZIyOdjQ3utdNvbqTrUq0@ifi.uio.no>
2006-06-20  7:25 ` [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities Andi Kleen
2006-06-20 21:29   ` Greg KH
2006-06-20 22:33     ` [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ Andi Kleen
2006-06-20 22:46       ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-21  6:19         ` Dave Olson

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