Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:48:18 -0400 | From | Brice Goglin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com> writes: > >> Or we could enable MSI by default on PCI-E chipsets and disable by >> default on non-PCI-E (ie we whitelist non-PCI-E only) ? PCI-E chipsets >> seem to support MSI pretty well. >> > > It looks like at least Serverworks HT1000 has trouble with MSI > too, but it's PCI-Express. But I guess those can be black listed >
IIRC, HT1000 is the southbridge part of the HT2000 chipset. We have been told that MSI works on this chipset. And from what we've seen/tested, it is true. The problem is that MSI is often disabled by the BIOS. My hypertransport MSI capability quirk should check it right.
Brice
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