Re: [PATCH] pci: Workaround Stratus broken PCIE hierarchy

[Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>]

On 11/15/2011 05:27 PM, James Paradis wrote:
>
> BTW - for everyone's edification, here is a report on fedoraforum.org
> that looks suspiciously like the same problem we're dealing with:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=255025
>
> The mobo worked with F13, broke with F14, nothing he did seemed to
> bring the keyboard back, ended up fixing it by getting another
> brand of motherboard.  I'm going to see if I can find a copy of
> that motherboard for testing...
>
> --jim
>
No, the original mobo worked on F13; new mobo broken on f13 & f14.
It sounds like an intr-rewiring problem; note, that he got it booted once,
(in the thread) and it took 30mins to do so.


> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Don Dutile<ddutile@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2011 12:41 PM, James Paradis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm... would it be better to do this as a quirk or as a boot
>>>> parameter?  I've heard reports that other systems may be running
>>>
>>> Hearsay?  if you have definite cases, then please share them,
>>> so folks know when to flip the boot parameter on.  note: it would
>>> have to be
>>> an early boot param as well.
>>
>> It'd definitely be good to know all the specific cases.
>>
>> But merely sharing them so folks will know when to use the parameter
>> is a broken model.  We should make it work automatically, either with
>> some sort of machine-dependent quirk, or (preferably) with a change
>> to
>> the generic algorithm so it can handle these "broken" topologies
>> along
>> with all the correct ones.
>>
>> Bjorn
>>