Where do MSI quirks belong?

John Polstra jdp at polstra.com
Mon Nov 20 16:06:31 PST 2006


On 21-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote:
> On 11/20/06, John Polstra <jdp at polstra.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's the 82546EB that's on the motherboard.  When MSI is
>> enabled and I try to do anything with its network interfaces, the
>> system hangs solid (won't even echo console keystrokes) at least
>> half the time.  When it doesn't hang, I get TX watchdog timeouts on
>> both interfaces.  It works perfectly if I disable MSI.
> 
> I'll look into this. I have 546 NICs that aren't LOMs, I can check those on
> a MB that I know supports MSI, and from there see if I can find the Tyan
> or something that has that chipset and that LOM.

Hey, thanks!

> Its a short week and I'm busy with some other projects, so be patient
> please :)

No problem at all.  I'm just running with MSI disabled for now.

John


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