Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:02:20 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "John Polstra" <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do MSI quirks belong? Message-ID: <2a41acea0611201602m6cf8d983lb4699bb1037efcdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20061120155920.jdp@polstra.com> References: <2a41acea0611201545s6a9848e2k952845f4ccedc04d@mail.gmail.com> <XFMail.20061120155920.jdp@polstra.com>
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On 11/20/06, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: > On 20-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote: > > On 11/20/06, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I'm not sure if 7501 works or not. Scott might know if there are errata for > >> it. > > > > I've looked at the specs for that chipset, and yes, it appears to have MSI. > > You're right though, for anything to work surely needs MB support as well. > > MSI is only going to work on PCI-X and PCI-E you know. > > > > Earlier someone asserted quirks would be chipset based, you know > > one thing about Linux quirks is they don't tie them down to anything > > specific like that, its just some known issue with a way to detect it. > > I could imagine a motherboard maker that screws something up in > > their design so even if a chipset in theory supports MSI the thing > > still wont work, so I think we should be ready to handle that. > > > > When you say it doesnt work, what are you trying to use it with, the > > E1000s? > > Yes, it's the 82546EB that's on the motherboard. When MSI is > enabled and I try to do anything with its network interfaces, the > system hangs solid (won't even echo console keystrokes) at least > half the time. When it doesn't hang, I get TX watchdog timeouts on > both interfaces. It works perfectly if I disable MSI. I'll look into this. I have 546 NICs that aren't LOMs, I can check those on a MB that I know supports MSI, and from there see if I can find the Tyan or something that has that chipset and that LOM. Its a short week and I'm busy with some other projects, so be patient please :) Jack
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