On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:04:39PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Jay Cliburn wrote: > > > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > >> It seems like more and more problems with PCI MSI are turning up > > >> in the 2.6.20 kernel. Discussion upstream concluded that maybe > > >> it should have been off by default in 2.6.20, so maybe we should > > >> just do that in Fedora and make people who want it use "pci=msi" > > >> to enable it? It's probably not going to be really stable until > > >> 2.6.22... > > > > > > I vote yes: turn it off by default. We just ran into an MSI issue on a > > > particular Via motherboard (Asus M2V) that runs the network driver > > > (atl1) I help maintain. The kernel blows up when we start the network > > > unless we turn off MSI. > > > > One of our bug reporters points to a unbuntu thread where they mention > > they have just turned of msi by default. > > > > Yeah, we've also turned off MMCONFIG by default. We've seen way too many > bugs that go away when they're disabled. Isn't that needed though to access higher config space on PCIE ? Or do we not have any drivers that use that yet, making it a nonissue? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
