Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263687AbTETK3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 06:29:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263688AbTETK3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 06:29:49 -0400 Received: from mail.cpt.sahara.co.za ([196.41.29.142]:20209 "EHLO workshop.saharact.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263687AbTETK3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 06:29:47 -0400 Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel From: Martin Schlemmer To: "Nguyen, Tom L" Cc: KML In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053427006.9152.397.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 20 May 2003 12:36:46 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 43 On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:22, Nguyen, Tom L wrote: > Here is a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only. > Do not seem to patch even against 2.5.66 ... > Thanks, > Tom > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:zwane@linuxpower.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:54 PM > To: Nakajima, Jun > Cc: Nguyen, Tom L; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Saxena, Sunil; Mallick, > Asit K; Carbonari, Steven > Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel > > > On Wed, 14 May 2003, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > > > 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! It'd be a lot easier to test the core changes too. What do you > mean by non legacy? > > Zwane -- Martin Schlemmer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/