On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 14:14 -0500, Loic Prylli wrote: > > Not knowing whether there is any chipset with the visibility feature, > but without the retry capability, and given that CRS is irrelevant for > most Linux platforms (it only matters just after power-on, long before > Linux is started in the common case),
"common case" I suppose in your mouth means desktop machines ? :-) In the embedded world, I would expect CRS to be something that linux has to deal with regulary. Maybe enable_crs should be moved to quirks on those platforms who want it... > This is mostly independant, allowing a PCIE->PCI-X bridge to generate > CRS is a different bit (bit 15 of pcie->devctl on the bridge). FWIW, > Linux does not seem to touch it, and it defaults to zero, so it does > not > seem like most current PCIE->PCI-X bridge will never generates a CRS > (some BIOSes might do it, but not the couple of platforms I looked > at). > Again the choice of setting here seems something better left to the > specific BIOS/embedded-code for a given platform. Ok, I wasn't sure about that one. Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
