RE: Message Signalled Interrupt support?

Nakajima, Jun (jun.nakajima@intel.com)
Mon, 12 May 2003 10:53:55 -0700


Yes. We are posting a patch soon (probably this week).

You don't need to change the existing device drivers unless you want to support multiple messages (something like multiple vectors per IRQ).

Thanks,
Jun

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@pobox.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky; willy@debian.org; davem@redhat.com
> Subject: Message Signalled Interrupt support?
>
> Has anybody done any work, or put any thought, into MSI support?
>
> Would things massively break if I set up MSI manually in the driver?
>
> I heard rumblings on lkml that Intel has done some work internally w/
> MSI support in Linux, but that doesn't help me much without further
> details ;-)
>
> Jeff
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