Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262322AbVDFUpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:45:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262323AbVDFUpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:45:05 -0400 Received: from 213-239-212-8.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.212.8]:62887 "EHLO live1.axiros.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262322AbVDFUoz (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:44:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4252E827.4080807@google.com> References: <4252E827.4080807@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-33--778398117" Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Egger Subject: Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:44:31 +0200 To: Ross Biro X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1556 Lines: 47 --Apple-Mail-33--778398117 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 05.04.2005, at 21:33, Ross Biro wrote: > The problem with always setting the bit is that some PCI hardware, > notably some Intel E-1000 chips (Ethernet controller: Intel > Corporation: Unknown device 1076) cannot properly handle the target > abort bit. In the case of the E-1000 chip, the driver must reset the > chip to recover. This usually leads to the machine being off the > network for several seconds, or sometimes even minutes, which can be > bad for servers. This sounds *exactly* like my problem since I swapped motherboards. I'll see whether there's some option in the BIOS that fixes it and if not bite the bullet and compile a generic kernel.... Thanks a lot for investigating this. Servus, Daniel --Apple-Mail-33--778398117 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCVEovchlzsq9KoIYRAvRcAKCg3H7JL3sh6B7KL0yiF8km/67NyACgwtbr JzNFYrPfkjr0b356+Ds0Uh4= =9Aqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-33--778398117-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/