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SubjectRe: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilitiesKJ
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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.

-Andi
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