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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:38:42 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No disks usable on a P5NE MB (aka regession is r219737)
Message-ID:  <201203281438.42924.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111115231253.GC96251@azathoth.lan>
References:  <e15ca6b07d1d4ee72f8dc063d25505d1@etoilebsd.net> <201111151246.42038.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111115231253.GC96251@azathoth.lan>

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On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:12:53 pm Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:46:41PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> [...]
> > and
> > > 10 remove that block :
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/workaround-to-boot-p5ne.diff
> > 
> > Yeah, the problem is that NVIDIA chipsets seem to have really odd behavior in 
> > that once you turn MSI mapping on for a given node in the HyperTransport tree 
> > it expects all child devices to only use MSI and not INTx.  Linux has a lot of 
> > quirk code to try to handle this by only turning on the mapping window when 
> > MSI is enabled for a given device.  However, it has lots of hacks to try to 
> > find the right Host-PCI Bridge that a given device is a child of.  I'm mostly 
> > tempted to just disable MSI on NVIDIA chipsets that have these issues rather 
> > than adding the same number of quirks.  However I haven't really had time to 
> > sit down and look at this.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for reply, if you can do some testing for you if you want.

Please try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/hostb_htmsi.patch

-- 
John Baldwin



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