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

[Dave Olson]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, 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.

We definitely want that chipset to be on the whitelist.   It's used in
supermicro systems, the Mac systems with the 970 chip, and some large
vendor systems as well.

The detection of MSI not being enabled in the config space is 
a good thing to do (and warn about), of course, no problem with that.

I've seen no MSI-related issues with the ST2000 on 3 different
platforms, so far.

Dave Olson
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