On Friday 25 May 2007 06:26:50 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> This patch is the result of a quick survey of the Intel chipset
> documents. I took a quick look in the document to see if the chipset
> supported MSI and if so I looked through to find the vendor and device
> id of device 0 function 0 of the chipset and added a quirk for that
> device id if I it was not a duplicate.
It would be better to look for any PCI bridge. Sometimes there are
different PCI bridges around (e.g. external PCI-X bridges on HT systems)
which might need own quirks
Also in the x86 world Microsoft defined a FADT ACPI flag that MSI doesn't
work for Vista. It might make sense to do
if (dmi year >= 2007 && FADT.msi_disable not set) assume it works
> This patch should be safe. The anecdotal evidence is that when dealing
> with MSI the Intel chipsets just work. If we find some buggy ones
> changing the list won't be hard.
The FADT bit should be probably checked anyways.
-Andi
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