On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 21:52 -0400, Pete Carah wrote:
> I updated my recently acquired core-2 duo laptop to 7-stable amd64 (I 
> had been running 7-stable i386 with few problems) and have acquired an 
> apparent irq problem.
> 
> Fortunately in debugging a linux shared-interrupt problem about a month 
> ago I learned that the X server will happily accept mouse motion as if 
> it was a display interrupt, so at least with some inconvenience I can 
> read the screen...  (the keyboard isn't so obliging)
> Ours does this too...
> 
> /usr/src was picked up via svn on last Saturday morning EDT, ports via 
> csup about the same time.  I have no idea if this bug is in the intel 
> driver, drm, or the core msi code...  There are 2 peripherals that dmesg 
> says uses msi - re0 (which doesn't get a kernel thread indicated in ps 
> for either the stated irq (257) or re0) and drm0/vgapci0 (which 
> indicates irq256 in systat and ps).  As I said, this worked properly 
> with earlier source (about a week) in i386 mode.  I've used both G45 and 
> re controllers in (f10) linux msi mode with no problems in both 32 and 
> 64-bit.  Fortunately this laptop now has enough disk to triple-boot so 
> at least something works...

Yes, Intel still has issues.  I do have a patch that reworks the
interrupt handling and gets Intel chips working.  It isn't safe to
commit yet though.  It works correctly on my G45, but I have had reports
that GM45 is still broken somehow.  As a workaround you can disable MSI
for just drm using loader tuneable hw.drm.msi=0.

robert.

> I am using svn instead of csup because I am trying (haven't gotten time 
> yet either :-) to port Sam's ath 92xx code to -stable and handling code 
> porting is much easier that way.
> 
> -- Pete
> 
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Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org>
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