Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:10:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim@gmail.com> Subject: Re: bge driver and MSI Message-ID: <4B1EDCEA.9060209@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A31693938@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> References: <2f7feda40912010931i3cf7d90dmb2a8d08ecd40589f@mail.gmail.com> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A3169363C@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <4B1DB10A.5060005@elischer.org> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A31693938@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
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David Christensen wrote: >>> MSI is broken on this device (actually all PCI/PCI-X devices in the >>> 57XX family). The interrupt will be asserted as expected >> but masking >>> the interrupt does not work. For those newer 1Gb PCIe >> devices that do >>> work correctly with MSI, only a single message is actually >> supported. >> >> Might be a good thing of someone would work up a man page >> paragraph to this effect. >> > > As a more general question, what would be the right medium to > document such device errata as it relates to a driver? Is the > man page the best location or would it be better to add a > table near the top of the driver file which summarizes the > bugs and the workarounds? Is there a general consensus? > > Dave I think the BUGS section of the man page is correct place.. It could also include problems in the related hardware. It's where people would look when they are having problems. If you sent me a paragraph for the correct man page (it's bce right?) I can commit it for you.
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