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Native PCI Express devices that require interrupt support must use the Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) mechanism defined originally in the PCI 2.2 specification. The next chapter details the MSI mechanism and also describes the legacy support that permits virtualization of the PCI INTx signals required by devices such as PCI Express-to-PCI Bridges.

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