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

[Dave Olson]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

| "Allen Martin" <AMartin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
| 
| > > 
| > > NForce4 PCI Express is an unknown - we'll see how that works.
| > > 
| > 
| > MSI is not officially supported on nForce4 and hasn't been fully tested.
| 
| Ok thanks for the information. We should definitely disable it by default
| then, maybe with an boot option so that the speed-over-stability crowd
| can enable it (+ possibly an oops taint bit) 

Why disable it, when it's clearly working?   Disable it for the
onboard ethernet, perhaps, but as far as I know, nobody has reported
any MSI issues on nforce4?   I've been in the vendor position often
enough to know that "not supported" doesn't mean "known to not work".

Dave Olson
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http://www.unixfolk.com/dave
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