[Lucid][pull request] Update to 2.6.32.11 stable kernel

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Sat Apr 3 17:51:34 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:55:54AM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > commit d6191b336f423ff680836dedafb23feae97a069c
> > Author: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
> >
> >    PCI quirk: RS780/RS880: work around missing MSI initialization
> >
> > # Type: Quirk
> > ! This should get dropped. Has been reported to cause regressions
> > # Was dropped since the last review
> 
> FYI: This patch seems to have been reworked in linux-2.6 HEAD (plus a
> very fresh patch on lkml). The change made is to not quirk on all the
> ATI graphics chips, but to quirk on specific motherboards that don't
> initialize MSI properly. If we see any ATI bugs, it might help to ask
> people to boot with pci=nomsi and add quirks for motherboards if it
> fixes things.

How would we determine that MSI was not properly initialized?  What
symptoms should we look for?

Bryce




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