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

[Jeff Garzik]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > Andi, is the tg3 NIC that didn't work in a Supermicro system
> > on PCI-X or PCI Express?
> >   
>
> IIRC, Andi was talking about a Supermicro machine with a ServerWorks
> HT2000 chipset. We have such a machine here. Its MSI is disabled in the
> Hyper-transport mapping. But, MSI works once the HT capability is
> enabled (and my quirk will detect it right).
> For such machines, if people really want MSI, we'll need to enable the
> HT cap in my quirk. But, as long as they just want IRQ to work,
> detecting whether the HT cap is enabled or not should be enough.

If it works reliably, we should definitely turn it on.

	Jeff, wishing his HT1000 did the same



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