Re: [PATCH 2/2] msi: Add support for the Intel chipsets that supportMSI.

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 10:42:48 EST


On 05/25/2007 02:10 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> This patch should be safe. The anecdotal evidence is that when dealing
>>> with MSI the Intel chipsets just work. If we find some buggy ones
>>> changing the list won't be hard.
>> The FADT bit should be probably checked anyways.
>
> Sure if we have a way to check I have no problem, although I tend to
> trust the hardware more.
>

Already in 2.6.22:

http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8993aff8b4de0317c6e081802ca5c86c449fef2
Commit: f8993aff8b4de0317c6e081802ca5c86c449fef2
Parent: a23cf14b161b8deeb0f701d577a0e8be6365e247
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Apr 25 11:05:12 2007 +0800
Committer: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed Apr 25 01:13:47 2007 -0400

ACPI: Disable MSI on request of FADT
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