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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata, devm_*, and MSI ?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:05:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4977399F.7000104@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232511378.11241.64.camel@localhost>

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:02 -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
..
>> 1) post lspci -v output to verify device (and bridges) is programmed correctly.
>> 2) look for chipset quirks that disable global msi
> 
> The kernel shouldn't let you enable MSI if that's the case, ie.
> pci_enable_msi() should fail.
..

Exactly.  So it shouldn't be that, then.

> It might still be worth looking at the quirks though, in case there's
> one for a previous revision of your bridge or something.
> 
>> 3) Make sure MMIO ranges for 0xfee00000 are routed to local APIC
>>    ie each bridge needs to route that address somehow (negative decode
>> is common for upstream).
>> 4) manually trigger the MSI by doing a MMIO write to the correct
>> 0xfee00000 address with the assigned vector in order to see if your
>> interrupt handler gets called.
> 
> And can you plug something directly into the PCIe bus? If so does MSI
> work on that?
..

Yup.  PCIe cards have no problem with MSI in that box.

More later..

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 16:03 libata, devm_*, and MSI ? Mark Lord
2009-01-20 16:07 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-20 17:44 ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-20 18:16   ` Mark Lord
2009-01-20 18:51     ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-20 19:54       ` Mark Lord
2009-01-21 11:59         ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-20 21:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-21  3:39   ` Mark Lord
2009-01-21  4:02     ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-21  4:16       ` Michael Ellerman
2009-01-21 15:05         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-01-22  0:33           ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-23 18:11             ` Mark Lord

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