[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] disable MSI for AMD-8131

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Mon Mar 28 14:58:18 PST 2005


On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:28:45PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Greg, Martin,
> 
> The AMD-8131 I/O APIC (device id 1022:7450/7451) does not support message
> signalled interrupts. Thus, if a device driver attempts to enable msi,
> it will suceed, but interrupts are not actually delivered to the cpu.
> The Nforce chipsets do not seem to have this limitation.
> AMD confirmed that MSI mode is unsupported with this APIC.
> 
> The following patch adds a flag to pci quirks to detect this and disable msi.
> 
> Please let me know what do you think.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellano.co.il>

Looks good, applied, thanks.

greg k-h



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