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Subject: RE: PCI Express MSI in kernel 2.4 ?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:58:52 -0800
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Thread-Topic: PCI Express MSI in kernel 2.4 ?
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From: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>
To: "philippe marteau" <Philippe.MARTEAU@alcatel.fr>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:59 PM Philippe Marteau wrote:
> I saw that there is an implementation of MSI in the Linux kernel 2.6 
> stream.
>
> Is there a possibility to port this in the 2.4 kernel tree (we are at 
> this time using 2.4.17) ?
>
> Is this already foreseen and planned and when ?
There is no patch for 2.4 and we have no plans to do one.

> Is this MSI feature already used out there ? on which target processor

> and southbridge ?
Chipsets have been shipping with MSI support for several years. The
major dependency is if the PCI card you want to enable supports MSI.

Thanks,
Long
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