Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities

From: Greg Lindahl
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 16:02:43 EST


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:25:30AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> So if there are any more MSI problems comming up IMHO it should be white list/disabled
> by default and only turn on after a long time when Windows uses it by default
> or something. Greg, do you agree?

You probably meant the other Greg, but the situation doesn't seem to
be that bad. Brice's proposed whitelist covers almost all Opteron PCI
Express servers.

What is the list of things which are known to have problems? All
PCI-X? We can ask some more people with PCI-X MSI cards what works
for them, i.e. Mellanox.

-- greg

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