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SubjectRe: AMD 8131 and MSI quirk
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:52:22PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>:
> > Subject: AMD 8131 and MSI quirk
> >
> > The current quirk_amd_8131_ioapic() function sets a global
> > pci_msi_quirk flag, which disables MSI/MSI-X for all devices in the
> > system. This is safe but suboptimal, because there may be devices on
> > other buses not related to the AMD 8131 bridge, for which MSI would
> > work fine. As an example, see the end of this email for a lspci -t
> > from a real Opteron system that has PCI-X buses coming from an AMD
> > 8131 and PCI Express buses coming from an Nforce4 bridge -- MSI works
> > fine for the Mellanox InfiniBand adapter on the PCIe bus, if we allow
> > it to be enabled.
>
> The following should do this IMO. Roland, could you test this patch please?
>
> ---
>
> It turns out AMD 8131 quirk only affects MSI for devices behind the 8131 bridge.
> Handle this by adding a flags field in pci_bus, inherited from parent to child.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>

Roland, did you ever verify that this patch worked or not for you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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