Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ | Date | Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:37:30 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:21, Dave Olson wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > | "Allen Martin" <AMartin@nvidia.com> writes: > | > | > > > | > > NForce4 PCI Express is an unknown - we'll see how that works. > | > > > | > > | > MSI is not officially supported on nForce4 and hasn't been fully tested. > | > | Ok thanks for the information. We should definitely disable it by default > | then, maybe with an boot option so that the speed-over-stability crowd > | can enable it (+ possibly an oops taint bit) > > Why disable it, when it's clearly working?
Because I don't think normal Linux users should be in the hardware validation business. If the vendor says it's not tested we shouldn't enable it by default.
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