bge driver and MSI
David Christensen
davidch at broadcom.com
Tue Dec 8 22:24:52 UTC 2009
> > MSI is broken on this device (actually all PCI/PCI-X devices in the
> > 57XX family). The interrupt will be asserted as expected
> but masking
> > the interrupt does not work. For those newer 1Gb PCIe
> devices that do
> > work correctly with MSI, only a single message is actually
> supported.
>
> Might be a good thing of someone would work up a man page
> paragraph to this effect.
>
As a more general question, what would be the right medium to
document such device errata as it relates to a driver? Is the
man page the best location or would it be better to add a
table near the top of the driver file which summarizes the
bugs and the workarounds? Is there a general consensus?
Dave
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