From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:39:23 -0700
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:28 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Michael Chan wrote: > > > AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and > > > prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it > > > using pci_msi_quirk. > > > > Why is it unique to the 5706? Is this just a guess on AMD and > > Broadcom's part? > > > I just took AMD's word for it. It doesn't matter to me whether we > disable it locally or globally. Since this is AMD's bridge, I just > follow their recommendation. They probably haven't seen this issue on > any other devices except ours. I really think this is a reasonable thing to do. It's absolutely rediculious to disable MSI for every card just because one decided to use a masked 64-bit transaction for what's supposed to be a 32-bit one. Jeff, I totally understand your knee-jerk reaction to per-device MSI validation checks, but in this case I find that knee-jerk reaction to be totally unreasonable. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
