Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758727AbXJTOul (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753456AbXJTOub (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:50:31 -0400 Received: from bay0-omc1-s31.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.103]:16941 "EHLO bay0-omc1-s31.bay0.hotmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752586AbXJTOu3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:50:29 -0400 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [218.80.171.213] From: Shane Huang To: Linas Vepstas , , , , , CC: , , , , , Subject: RE: [patch] PCI: disable MSI on more ATI NorthBridges Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:50:27 +0800 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20071019195749.GK29903@austin.ibm.com> References: <20071019195749.GK29903@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2007 14:50:29.0044 (UTC) FILETIME=[8E801F40:01C81328] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 45 Quoting "David G" > "Here" as in "here at AMD"?! I'm stunned... > Both AMD and the former ATI should have quite some experience?! When I used "here", I was just meaning our youthful linux southbridge drivers team instead of the whole AMD. Sorry for the confusion to you. Quoting "Linas" > As someone else pointed out, AMD should have *lots* of people with > pci and msi experience on the payroll. (Folks here buy AMD-designed > pci chips ...) Yes, absolutely AMD has lots of people with PCI and MSI experience, but this MSI issue is mainly under the debug of our team now. I think our team will cooperate with other teams more closely to provide linux chipset support besides fixing the MSI problem in the future. Quoting "Jeff" > Take a look at tg3.c net driver change > 2fbe43f6f631dd7ce19fb1499d6164a5bdb34568 which is a similar > situation. However, it may turn out that removing the pci_intx() > stuff as a general rule is easier than quirking these devices, if enough > of them turn out to have this hardware bug. The tg3.c change should > illustrate how to fix immediately, though. Thanks for your suggestion. I will continue to debug this problem next Monday when I'm back to the office. Thanks Best Regards Shane _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us - 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/