Hi! > > And you should explain what exactly in PCI is "optional". Who defines > > this and where is that list and what can go wrong if those options are > > not enabled? > > Bjorn and I discussed the need for such a "safe" mode feature when you > want to bring up PCI for a platform. You want to turn off everything as > a starter and just stick to bare minimum. > > I can add a few words describing them. The goal of this option is to keep > base PCI features with MSI only. Things like PME, AER, ASPM, Extended > Tags, LTR, Relaxed Ordering, SRIOV are all considered optional. safemode > is certainly not intended for production environments. > > I can taint the kernel as a suggestion. I don't think tainting is required. even modern platforms should work in the safe mode. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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