MSI and MMCONFIG, again...

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 08/08/2007 10:50 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:41:57PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  > On 08/08/2007 01:28 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>  > >> We are still hitting problems with MSI (and probably mmconfig)
>  > >> with kernel 2.6.22:
>  > >>
>  > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249469
>  > >>
>  > >> Should we just go back to disabling these by default?
>  > >>   
>  > > 
>  > > Chuck -- how long have we had this re-enabled?  What about (groan) doing
>  > > quirks for msi/mmconfig?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > They were re-enabled with the new 2.6.22 kernels for Fedora 6 and 7.
>  > 
>  > And there are quirks in there now, I guess the list just isn't complete
>  > (and probably never can be.)
> 
> Weren't there other newer devices that need MSI on ?
> Some of the infiniband stuff maybe?
> 
> As painful as it is, additional quirks would be the best all-round
> solution I think.
> 

I think it would be best to turn MSI off in FC6, where it's already been off
for a long time anyway.