RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel

From: Nguyen, Tom L (tom.l.nguyen@intel.com)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 14:03:36 EST


Martin,

The vector-based patch is based on 2.5.65. We can port this patch to later kernel version if required. Please let us know.

Thanks,
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Schlemmer [mailto:azarah@gentoo.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:37 AM
To: Nguyen, Tom L
Cc: KML
Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:22, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> Here is a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only.
>

Do not seem to patch even against 2.5.66 ...

> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:zwane@linuxpower.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:54 PM
> To: Nakajima, Jun
> Cc: Nguyen, Tom L; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Saxena, Sunil; Mallick,
> Asit K; Carbonari, Steven
> Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel
>
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
>
> > That's a good idea, and that's the way we did this (we added MSI
> > support on top of the vector-based indexing). If people are interested in
> > the vector-based indexing (i.e. provide the vector number to device
> > drivers (non-legacy drivers only) instead of IRQ) for some other uses, we
> > would like to discuss possible cleaner implementations.
> >
> > Long will post a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only.
>
> Thanks! It'd be a lot easier to test the core changes too. What do you
> mean by non legacy?
>
> Zwane

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Martin Schlemmer

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