(forgot to cc: LKML) Roland Dreier wrote: > > A whitelist is an awkward solution, the problem is the number of > > chipsets available with MSI will continue to grow. And the assumption > > is that after Microsoft OS supports MSI, that newer chipsets will work. > > Maybe a whitelist for older systems and then enable everything after a > DMI cutoff date by default? Doesn't work on non-PC stuff though...
When I started sending patches about all this, I proposed a whitelist for PCI bridges and a blacklist for PCIe bridges, but Greg was against whitelisting. Now, reading this thread, I am very disturbed with the idea of disabling MSI on all non-Intel bridges. Blacklisting correctly shouldn't be that hard. From my point of view, there are several non-Intel bridges that seem to support MSI very well (especially some HT<->PCIe bridges). And apart from being required for ipath, MSI improves the performance of network drivers a bit, so I'd rather keep it enabled on trusted bridges... Brice - 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/
