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

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:03:52 -0700 Greg Lindahl wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:25:30AM +0200, 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?
> 
> You probably meant the other Greg, but the situation doesn't seem to
> be that bad. Brice's proposed whitelist covers almost all Opteron PCI
> Express servers.

Why "almost"?  What does a user do if his/hers is not covered?
Does it cover the 10 new models that are available tomorrow?
(hypothetical question)

> What is the list of things which are known to have problems? All
> PCI-X?  We can ask some more people with PCI-X MSI cards what works
> for them, i.e.  Mellanox.

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~Randy
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