Re: MSI failure on Nvidia nForce

[Jeff Garzik]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I got a report of sky2 driver irq test failing on x86_64 using
> the following configuration.  Is this a known problem?
> Should workaround be done at PCI layer?
>
> What the driver does is setup MSI handler, then do a software generated
> IRQ and check that it was received (similar to tg3).  If IRQ test fails
> it falls back to INTx.

Please describe precisely -how- it fails.

pci_enable_msi() does not fail properly on systems that do not support 
MSI.  This is a major unresolved problem that is preventing MSI 
deployment, and causing every driver writer to include a does-MSI-work 
test in their driver.

We need to find a good generic test, or if that fails, adopt an 
ACPI-like rule:  whitelist systems with working MSI before $X date, and 
blacklist systems with broken MSI after $X date.

	Jeff


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