On 02-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote: > On 11/2/06, Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org> wrote: >> This is typical Dell, and it gets even worse if you have a laptop. >> Imagine every PCI device being on the sole interrupt line that is routed >> on the motherboard. Growing MSI support would get around this for bce >> and many other devices. >> >> Scott > > Well, guess we need stronger fertilizer so it grows faster :) > > Seriously though, MSI implementation is happening. The em driver wants > it also :) Yeah, I stuck a dual-port Intel gigabit NIC into one of the PCI-Ex slots, and it got assigned IRQs 16 and 17. So that's three gigabit interfaces on IRQ 16. I moved the Intel NIC to the other slot, and it still got assigned the same IRQs. Wonderful. JohnReceived on Thu Nov 02 2006 - 17:11:22 UTC
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