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SubjectRE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel
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Here is a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only.

Thanks,
Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:zwane@linuxpower.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:54 PM
To: Nakajima, Jun
Cc: Nguyen, Tom L; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Saxena, Sunil; Mallick,
Asit K; Carbonari, Steven
Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel


On Wed, 14 May 2003, Nakajima, Jun wrote:

> That's a good idea, and that's the way we did this (we added MSI
> support on top of the vector-based indexing). If people are interested in
> the vector-based indexing (i.e. provide the vector number to device
> drivers (non-legacy drivers only) instead of IRQ) for some other uses, we
> would like to discuss possible cleaner implementations.
>
> Long will post a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only.

Thanks! It'd be a lot easier to test the core changes too. What do you
mean by non legacy?

Zwane
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