Re: PCIE

[Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > >> Another question would be if the device supports multiple messages, MSIX
>  > >> should be used ?
>  > > 
>  > > Yes. Assuming the device supports multiple MSI-X messages.
> 
> At least on my device (PCI ID 1131:7162) there is no MSI-X capability,
> so that's not an option for you.  The current Linux implementation
> does not support more than one MSI interrupt, so you just get one
> interrupt with pci_enable_msi().
> 
> I think it's probably simplest for you to forget about MSI until you
> have the basic driver working.

Damn. The NXP guys don't want me to go ahead with the generic registers.

What they said :

> And if you really use the SAA7162 in the PC application,
> pls ignore the 0x520 .....
> That's not a good decision to use that.

Might need to ask them why it would not be a good decision then. :-(
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