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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:10:24 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, mjacob@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/bge if_bge.c
Message-ID:  <200612280110.25216.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612160919.54708.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <XFMail.20061215174241.jdp@polstra.com> <200612160919.54708.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Saturday 16 December 2006 09:19, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 20:42, John Polstra wrote:
> > On 15-Dec-2006 David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:26:55PM -0800, Peter Grehan wrote:
> > >> >I have a Tyan K8W (s2885) which I experienced this on:
> > >> 
> > >>  That's using the the AMD 8131 right ? 
> > > 
> > > Yep.
> > > 
> > >> Known not to support MSI.
> > > 
> > > I assumed the code would check and not attempt MSI if not supported.
> > 
> > That would be the job of the PCI infrastructure, not of the bge
> > driver.  Quite a few motherboards/chipsets indicate MSI support
> > in their PCI configuration registers but do not in fact have
> > working MSI support.  Scott and I recently added quirk support in
> > sys/dev/pci/pci.c to deal with that.  Feel free to add a new entry
> > there.
> 
> But I have a separate patch for the 8131 as it is treated differently.
> Please try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/msi_pcib.patch

Can someone with a system with an AMD 8131 HT-PCIX bridge please test this
patch?  I know Matt (cc'd) has one and I think David has one.  The patch
should disable MSI for any devices behind the 8131 bridge, but not
necessarily all devices in the system.

-- 
John Baldwin



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