Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24

david
2009-02-18T02:32:10Z

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> david@lang.hm wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> david@lang.hm wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> david@lang.hm wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:44:55PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I got a picture of the failed boot at
>>>>>>>>>> http://linux.lang.hm/linux/IMG00052.jpg
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The PCI-MSI line is probably indicative. Can you try booting with:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> mptbase.mpt_msi_enable_sas=0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and also send us an lspci -v so we can update the blacklist?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> is that disabling SAS for this system? if so, that's the wrong thing
>>>>>>>> to do
>>>>>>>> (the drives are SAS)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> it only disable MSI with that mptsas.
>>>>>>> and mptsas will use ioapic routing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> can you post whole bootlog?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> unfortunantly it's booting from CD and the only drives in the
>>>>>> system are
>>>>>> the ones that are not being accessed.
>>>>>
>>>>> i mean with kernel before 2.6.24..
>>>>
>>>> Ok, attached.
>>>>
>>>
>>> so your lsi 1068 is under 8132... need to double check if that chip
>>> really support MSI.
>>
>> anything I can do in the 2.6.24 kernel? or the 2.8.28.6 kernel?
>>
> for 2.6.24, it disable msi by default.
>
> for 2.6.28 please have
> mptbase.mpt_msi_enable=0
> in your boot command line.

this does let it boot.

David Lang