Where do MSI quirks belong?

[Jack Vogel]

On 11/20/06, John Polstra <jdp at polstra.com> wrote:
> On 20-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote:
> > On 11/20/06, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if 7501 works or not.  Scott might know if there are errata for
> >> it.
> >
> > I've looked at the specs for that chipset, and yes, it appears to have MSI.
> > You're right though, for anything to work surely needs MB support as well.
> > MSI is only going to work on PCI-X and PCI-E you know.
> >
> > Earlier someone asserted quirks would be chipset based, you know
> > one thing about Linux quirks is they don't tie them down to anything
> > specific like that, its just some known issue with a way to detect it.
> > I could imagine a motherboard maker that screws something up in
> > their design so even if a chipset in theory supports MSI the thing
> > still wont work, so I think we should be ready to handle that.
> >
> > When you say it doesnt work, what are you trying to use it with, the
> > E1000s?
>
> Yes, it's the 82546EB that's on the motherboard.  When MSI is
> enabled and I try to do anything with its network interfaces, the
> system hangs solid (won't even echo console keystrokes) at least
> half the time.  When it doesn't hang, I get TX watchdog timeouts on
> both interfaces.  It works perfectly if I disable MSI.

I'll look into this. I have 546 NICs that aren't LOMs, I can check those on
a MB that I know supports MSI, and from there see if I can find the Tyan
or something that has that chipset and that LOM.

Its a short week and I'm busy with some other projects, so be patient
please :)

Jack