2008-02-12 21:27:39

by Krzysztof Halasa

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Subject: E1000 (PCI-E) doesn't work on nforce430, MSI issue.

Hi,

Is it a known problem?
Linux 2.6.24.2, ASUS M2NPV-MX mobo, nforce 430 based, two PCI-E x1
E1000 cards, 32-bit kernel, default e1000 driver (PCI IDs disabled in
e1000e).

Don't work by default. "pci=nomsi" fixes the problem.

82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
Subsystem: PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter

(8086:10b9 subsystem 8086:1083)

grep eth0 /proc/interrupts
20: 1945 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0

(without "pci=nomsi":
221: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0)

other devices of possible interest:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)

Additional details on request.
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Krzysztof Halasa


2008-02-12 21:35:07

by Prakash Punnoor

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Subject: Re: E1000 (PCI-E) doesn't work on nforce430, MSI issue.

On the day of Tuesday 12 February 2008 Krzysztof Halasa hast written:
> Hi,
>
> Is it a known problem?
> Linux 2.6.24.2, ASUS M2NPV-MX mobo, nforce 430 based, two PCI-E x1
> E1000 cards, 32-bit kernel, default e1000 driver (PCI IDs disabled in
> e1000e).
>
> Don't work by default. "pci=nomsi" fixes the problem.

Probably the patch to enable msi bit on the host bridge(?) is still missing in
mainline. I needed that patch to make msi work on my MCP51 system.

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2008-02-12 22:25:28

by Kok, Auke

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Subject: Re: E1000 (PCI-E) doesn't work on nforce430, MSI issue.

Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> On the day of Tuesday 12 February 2008 Krzysztof Halasa hast written:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it a known problem?
>> Linux 2.6.24.2, ASUS M2NPV-MX mobo, nforce 430 based, two PCI-E x1
>> E1000 cards, 32-bit kernel, default e1000 driver (PCI IDs disabled in
>> e1000e).

your card will work with e1000e from 2.6.25 onwards.

>> Don't work by default. "pci=nomsi" fixes the problem.

actually does not fix anything - it just works around it by falling back to legacy
interrupts.

> Probably the patch to enable msi bit on the host bridge(?) is still missing in
> mainline. I needed that patch to make msi work on my MCP51 system.

and there have been many more reports. unfortunately e1000 cards are one of the
few things that actually uses MSI. It works great except for a few problematic
motherboards, and the ones mentioned in this thread fall amongst them.

Auke

2008-02-13 00:06:09

by Krzysztof Halasa

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Subject: Re: E1000 (PCI-E) doesn't work on nforce430, MSI issue.

"Kok, Auke" <[email protected]> writes:

>>> Don't work by default. "pci=nomsi" fixes the problem.
>
> actually does not fix anything - it just works around it by falling
> back to legacy interrupts.

Actually it does, fixes the problem by working around a bug :-)

Thanks for info.
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Krzysztof Halasa