Petr Vandrovec wrote:
After poking around I've found that problem is that at least ATI USB-HCDs
apply INTX enable even for MSI, despite warning in the PCI specification that
it should apply only to MSI (actually I have feeling that on these USB devices
disabling INTX in MSI mode drives their INTA# line active as when ohci1394
module got loaded kernel complained about interrupt being continuously
activated for no good reason (TI's 7421 is one of few MSI-incapable devices
in my box).
So my question is - what is real reason for disabling INTX when in MSI mode?
According to PCI spec it should not be needed, and it hurts at least chips
listed below:
Do not disable INTX in MSI mode. It breaks ATI USB HCDs (both OHCI and EHCI).
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <[email protected]>
diff -uprdN linux/drivers/pci/msi.c linux/drivers/pci/msi.c
--- linux/drivers/pci/msi.c 2006-12-16 13:34:52.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/drivers/pci/msi.c 2006-12-20 23:18:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static void enable_msi_mode(struct pci_d
dev->msix_enabled = 1;
}
- pci_intx(dev, 0); /* disable intx */
+ pci_intx(dev, 1); /* enable intx, on some devices it affects MSI as well */
}
I'm just going to CC Linus, and run ;-)
More seriously. Some other chips choke if you forget to disable INTx,
before going into MSI mode.
Thus, turning off one irq source before turning on another is the most
logical course of action.
I suppose we'll have to quirk ATI for being dumb...?
Jeff
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