Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI: enable extended tags support for PCIe endpoints | From | Sinan Kaya <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:33:39 -0500 |
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On 1/25/2017 12:49 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote: > Hi Bjorn, > > On 11/11/2016 3:58 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >>> Is there any other feedback? >> If this were completely safe to enable for every device that supported >> it, why would there be an enable bit in Device Control? >> >> I don't know anything about extended tags, but it worries me a little >> when there's a "go-fast" switch and no explanation about when and why >> we might need to go slow. >>
I tried to answer your question in the new commit message. All PCIe completers are required to support 8 bit tags.
Generation of 8 bit tags is optional. That's why, there is a supported and an enable/disable bit.
> > I have v2 posted. Do you feel like applying to linux-next to get some testing > exposure or do you want to tie it to some DMI so that we enable it only on > recent HW? > > Sinan >
-- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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