Jay Cliburn wrote:
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> It seems like more and more problems with PCI MSI are turning up
> in the 2.6.20 kernel. Discussion upstream concluded that maybe
> it should have been off by default in 2.6.20, so maybe we should
> just do that in Fedora and make people who want it use "pci=msi"
> to enable it? It's probably not going to be really stable until
> 2.6.22...
I vote yes: turn it off by default. We just ran into an MSI issue on a
particular Via motherboard (Asus M2V) that runs the network driver
(atl1) I help maintain. The kernel blows up when we start the network
unless we turn off MSI.
One of our bug reporters points to a unbuntu thread where they mention
they have just turned of msi by default.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/74830