On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:08 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi Linus ! > > This series fix a nasty issue with radeon adapters on powerpc servers, > it's all CC'ed stable and has the relevant maintainers ack's/reviews. Hrm... git request-pull can't find the commit on the server (it's been quite a while now, maybe some mirroring issue), so didn't put the branch name in properly. The branch name is "merge", ie: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git merge Cheers Ben. > Basically, some (radeon) adapters have issues with MSI addresses above > 1T (only support 40-bits). We had powerpc specific quirk but it only > listed a specific revision of an adapter that we shipped with our > machines and didn't properly handle the audio function which some distros > enable nowadays. > > So we made the quirk generic and fixed both the graphic and audio drivers > properly to use it. > > Without that, ppc64 server machines will crash at boot with a radeon adapter. > > Note: This has been brewing for a while, it just needed a last respin which > got delayed due to us moving ozlabs to a new location in town and other such > things taking priority. > > Cheers, > Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html