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

[Jeff Garzik]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> However, the other issue is that CONFIG_PCI_MSI forces some other
> changes to x86 interrupt handling, even if no devices will ever use
> MSI.  And the changes are such that some systems can't even boot with
> CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled.  This is the more severe problem, which needs
> to be handled if you want distros to turn on MSI.

Agreed.  We definitely want CONFIG_PCI_MSI-enabled kernels to work in 
all situations.

	Jeff


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