Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263871AbTETSuv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:50:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263872AbTETSuv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:50:51 -0400 Received: from fmr02.intel.com ([192.55.52.25]:3069 "EHLO caduceus.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263871AbTETSut convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:50:49 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:03:36 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel Thread-Index: AcMevJMPZKvEd7y3TwGhI30xcNdxJgARSoWw From: "Nguyen, Tom L" To: "Martin Schlemmer" , "Nguyen, Tom L" Cc: "KML" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 May 2003 19:03:37.0115 (UTC) FILETIME=[849356B0:01C31F02] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1727 Lines: 57 Martin, The vector-based patch is based on 2.5.65. We can port this patch to later kernel version if required. Please let us know. Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Martin Schlemmer [mailto:azarah@gentoo.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:37 AM To: Nguyen, Tom L Cc: KML Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel 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/