Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and check Hyper-transport capabilities

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 04:13:07 EST


On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > So if there are any more MSI problems comming up IMHO it should be white list/disabled
> > by default and only turn on after a long time when Windows uses it by default
> > or something. Greg, do you agree?
>
>
> We should be optimists, not pessimists.

Yes, booting on all systems is overrated anyways, isn't it?

>
> MSI is useful enough that we should turn it on by default in newer systems.

That is what we've tried so far and it seems to not work.

-Andi
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