Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] msi: remove return code for msi_init()

[Paul Burton]

Hi Aurelien/Paolo/Marcel,

On Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:22:06 PDT Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2017-06-01 16:23, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 01/06/2017 10:27, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > On 31/05/2017 11:28, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > >> No, for now I'd rather just go and remove msi_nonbroken.  When someone
> > >> reports a bug, we can add back "msi_broken".
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I agree with the direction, but I am concerned msi_nonbroken is there
> > > for a reason.
> > > We might break some (obscure/not in use) machine.
> > > Maybe we should CC all arch machine maintainers/contributors to give
> > > them a chance to object...
> > 
> > Yeah, Alpha, MIPS and SH are those that support PCI.  Adding Richard and
> > Aurelien, do your platforms support MSI on real hardware but not in QEMU?
> 
> SH clearly doesn't support MSI.
> 
> The oldest MIPS board also do not support MSI, but I guess the Boston
> board might support it. I am adding Paul Burton in Cc: who probably
> knows about that.
> 
> Aurelien

Indeed, real Boston hardware does support MSI (or rather, the Xilinx AXI 
Bridge for PCI Express IP used on Boston does) & we make use of it in Linux.

Thanks,
    Paul

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