Re: 2.6.28-rc1: [drm:i915] *ERROR* ... Disabling tiling

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 10:58:38 EST


Alan Jenkins wrote:
What does this mean, should I do anything about it? Is tiling nice to have?

It sounds like GEM broke something - though maybe it just added a more verbose error report.

System: EeePC 701
Kernel: v2.6.36-rc1-5-g23cf24c
Chipset: Intel mobile 915G-something
Regretably necessary kernel boot option: noapic


[ 1.438441] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 1.438441] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 915GM Chipset
[ 1.438441] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
[ 1.443353] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
[ 1.443353] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.443353] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 1.443353] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.443353] [drm:i915_gem_detect_bit_6_swizzle] *ERROR* Couldn't read from MCHBAR. Disabling
tiling.
[ 1.443353] [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* failed to enable MSI


I expect noapic explains the MSI failure. I can boot without noapic if necessary for testing, but I can't run with it because I get nasty hangs & reboots. I don't see why that merits an *ERROR*... anyway, what I'm interested in is the "Disabling tiling".

Actually... MSI does seem to be working for my ethernet.

$ grep eth /proc/interrupts
44: 2446 PCI-MSI-edge eth1

DRM wasn't using MSI in 2.6.27 though. So I'm still doubtful that the MSI issue is really an "*ERROR*".

Thanks
Alan
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