RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel

[Nakajima, Jun]

That's a good idea, and that's the way we did this (we added MSI support on top of the vector-based indexing). If people are interested in the vector-based indexing (i.e. provide the vector number to device drivers (non-legacy drivers only) instead of IRQ) for some other uses, we would like to discuss possible cleaner implementations.

Long will post a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only. 

Thanks,
Jun

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:58 AM
> To: Nguyen, Tom L
> Cc: [e-mail]; Saxena, Sunil; Mallick, Asit K; Nakajima,
> Jun; Carbonari, Steven
> Subject: Re: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel
> 
> Is it possible for you to split up the vector based indexing and the MSI
> support? There are other uses for such an indexing scheme as opposed to
> irq based.
> 
> 	Zwane
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