Re: Changing MSI to use physical delivery mode always.

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:00:38AM -0800, Ashok Raj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> MSI was hard coded to use logical delivery mode for i386/x86_64 and 
> physical mode for ia64.
> 
> With recent x86_64 we moved to physical flat mode that broke MSI.
> 
> Made MSI to work with physical mode, this will be consistent on all
> archs. 

Nasty bug. Thanks for tracking that down.

It is outright scary though that such deeply architecture specific
code is in drivers/pci. It should be in arch. I think that was
because I missed it. Would you be willing to move the APIC specific parts 
to arch/i386/pci ? 

-Andi

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