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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/12] PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:08:03 -0500 (EST)
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> > > This scares me a little... seems like we're not restoring some state on
> > > resume that's needed for MSIs to work?  Looks fine though.
> > 
> > Yeah, that was my concern. We debugged this a little on IRC and didn't 
> > get anywhere, though, so probably need to find someone who knows more 
> > about MSIs...
> 
> I'd rather say someone who knows more about ICH7. :-)
> 
> MSIs work just fine after resume for the other devices in the same box,
> so I'd say it's a chipset issue.

Hmmm, do all the ICH7 boxes behave the same way?

Yesterday MSI announced a netbook running Suse/Moblin,
so there is hope for more technical work w/ MSI to support Linux...

It is a bit worrysome to go out of the gate to need a DMI blacklist
for relatively new hardware.

cheers,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center