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

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Mon Apr 5 17:10:54 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:32:47PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> bug 509273 appears to exhibit this issue [1]. Shortly after boot
> (often when you get into *dm), the machine will crash or hang. I
> haven't yet had a chance to build a test kernel module for this bug,
> but it's on my list of things to do.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/509273

Awesome thanks, I think I've seen several possible dupes to this
involving 200M's.

Bryce




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