Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:32:05 -0700 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI quirks: RS780/RS880: work around missing MSI initialization |
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:28:00 -0400 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote: > > AMD says in section 2.5.4 (GFX MSI Enable) of #43291 (AMD 780G Family > > Register Programming Requirements): > > > > The SBIOS must enable internal graphics MSI capability in GCCFG by > > setting the following: NBCFG.NB_CNTL.STRAP_MSI_ENABLE='1' > > > > Quite a few BIOS writers misinterpret this sentence and think that > > enabling MSI is an optional feature. However, clearing that bit just > > prevents delivery of MSI messages but does not remove the MSI PCI > > capabilities registers, and so leaves these devices unusable for any > > driver that attempts to use MSI. > > > > Setting that bit is not possible after the BIOS has locked down the > > configuration registers, so we have to manually disable MSI for the > > affected devices. > > > > This fixes the codec communication errors in the HDA driver when > > accessing the HDMI audio device, and allows us to get rid of the > > overcautious quirk in radeon_irq_kms.c. > > Looks good. This works properly on my rs780. > > Tested-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gamil.com>
Great, applied to my for-linus branch. I'll send it over to Linus this week.
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