On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
> > Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >> It seems like more and more problems with PCI MSI are turning up
> >> in the 2.6.20 kernel. Discussion upstream concluded that maybe
> >> it should have been off by default in 2.6.20, so maybe we should
> >> just do that in Fedora and make people who want it use "pci=msi"
> >> to enable it? It's probably not going to be really stable until
> >> 2.6.22...
> >
> > I vote yes: turn it off by default. We just ran into an MSI issue on a
> > particular Via motherboard (Asus M2V) that runs the network driver
> > (atl1) I help maintain. The kernel blows up when we start the network
> > unless we turn off MSI.
>
> One of our bug reporters points to a unbuntu thread where they mention
> they have just turned of msi by default.
>
Yeah, we've also turned off MMCONFIG by default. We've seen way too many
bugs that go away when they're disabled.
Cheers,
Kyle
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