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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Dave Olson <olson@unixfolk.com>,
	discuss@x86-64.org, Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:54:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44986083.9050503@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaejxjo9ua.fsf@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:
> However, the other issue is that CONFIG_PCI_MSI forces some other
> changes to x86 interrupt handling, even if no devices will ever use
> MSI.  And the changes are such that some systems can't even boot with
> CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled.  This is the more severe problem, which needs
> to be handled if you want distros to turn on MSI.

Agreed.  We definitely want CONFIG_PCI_MSI-enabled kernels to work in 
all situations.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.5FgZbVFZIyOdjQ3utdNvbqTrUq0@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.URgTUhhO9H/aLp98XyIN2gzSppk@ifi.uio.no>
2006-06-20  5:42   ` [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities Dave Olson
2006-06-20  7:25     ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-20  8:02       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-20  8:13         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-20  8:27           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-20 22:44             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 20:03       ` Greg Lindahl
2006-06-20 20:20         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-20 20:26           ` Brice Goglin
2006-06-20 20:41           ` Greg Lindahl
2006-06-20 20:50             ` Brice Goglin
2006-06-20 20:53               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-20 20:57               ` Dave Olson
2006-06-20 20:23         ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-20 20:54           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-06-20 21:29       ` Greg KH
2006-06-20 22:27         ` Brice Goglin
2006-06-20 23:05           ` Greg KH
2006-06-20 23:16             ` Brice Goglin
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
2006-06-17  3:01 [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities Brice Goglin
2006-06-17 14:48 ` Brice Goglin
     [not found]   ` <20060619005329.GA1425@greglaptop>
2006-06-19  8:28     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-06-19 12:52       ` Brice Goglin
2006-06-19 15:47       ` Greg Lindahl

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