Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-08-03 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:20:30AM +0800, kylin wrote: I wonder if i can workaround the MSI using the polling way on the server geared by E7520 and the firmware with no OSC implemented Per the PCI firmware spec (I'm looking at draft 0.9, version 3.0), the OS must explicitly get control of

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-30 Thread kylin
n the latest update of the Intel's E7520 MCH,the very NOTFIX entry caught my eye: // PCI Express Hot-Plug MSI interrupt issue Problem: During a link down state, the MCH will not send MSI interrupts to the front side bus. In general MSI messages need not be

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-29 Thread Rajat Jain
On 7/29/05, Rajesh Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:45:49PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Okay. I'm sorry but I'm not very clear with this. I'm just putting down here my understanding. So basically we have two mutually EXCLUSIVE hotplug drivers I can use for PCI

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi Rajat, you can learn more about the OSHP method by reading the PCI express spec. It is used to tell an ACPI bios that the OS will be handling the hotplug events natively. It may be that your BIOS does not allow native hotplug for pcie, in which case you need to be using the acpiphp

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Kristen Accardi
On 7/28/05, Rajat Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rajat, you can learn more about the OSHP method by reading the PCI express spec. It is used to tell an ACPI bios that the OS will be handling the hotplug events natively. It may be that your BIOS does not allow native hotplug for pcie,

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:45:49PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Okay. I'm sorry but I'm not very clear with this. I'm just putting down here my understanding. So basically we have two mutually EXCLUSIVE hotplug drivers I can use for PCI Express: A hotplug slot can be controlled only by a single

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-27 Thread Kristen Accardi
On 7/24/05, Rajat Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:01:22PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the PCI Express Hot-Plug Controller driver (pciehp.ko) with Kernel 2.6 so that I can get hot-plug events whenever I add a card to my PCI Express

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-24 Thread Rajat Jain
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:01:22PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the PCI Express Hot-Plug Controller driver (pciehp.ko) with Kernel 2.6 so that I can get hot-plug events whenever I add a card to my PCI Express slot. I built the driver as a module, and am trying

Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-12 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I'm trying to use the PCI Express Hot-Plug Controller driver (pciehp.ko) with Kernel 2.6 so that I can get hot-plug events whenever I add a card to my PCI Express slot. I built the driver as a module, and am trying to load it manually using modprobe. However, when trying to insert, I'm

Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:01:22PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the PCI Express Hot-Plug Controller driver (pciehp.ko) with Kernel 2.6 so that I can get hot-plug events whenever I add a card to my PCI Express slot. I built the driver as a module, and am trying to load it