From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: re-enable 88E8056 for most motherboards Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:02:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20070514120206.5181839e@freepuppy> References: <20070430142349.79754c1b@freekitty> <46374784.7010401@gentoo.org> <20070510090010.4c6b8589@freepuppy> <464734F1.2020103@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Francois SIMOND To: Daniel Drake Return-path: Received: from smtp.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.12]:35186 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754883AbXENTEf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 15:04:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <464734F1.2020103@gentoo.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 13 May 2007 11:55:29 -0400 Daniel Drake wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I can use DMI to narrow down to one motherboard. > > Or just let everything through and let user's discover what's unstable, it fails > > relatively quickly. > > > > Could you please get full PCI info lspci -vvxxx for working/non-working 88e8056 (Yukon EC-U) > > systems? It might be some PCI Express setup by the BIOS, but so far haven't > > found any difference that mattered. > > I haven't seen any reports of systems affected by the corruption issue > so I can't provide any data there. > > Here is the full lspci output for a few systems with 88E8056 devices > that work fine: > > Gigabyte P965-S3 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=118827&action=view > > Gigabyte P965-S3 (from another user) > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=118848&action=view > > Asus P5B deluxe > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=119038&action=view > > > Daniel It looks like these users aren't using MSI? Also, there maybe some correlation of the problem with IDE AHCI mode. I am using WD Raptor 10K driver with AHCI, that does Native Command Queuing, could be some weird IDE interaction. If I turn off AHCI, it works better (still fails but differently). -- Stephen Hemminger