kernel-image-2.6.8: CONFIG_PCI_MSI should NOT be enabled!

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #273569 http://bugs.debian.org/273569

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:57:57 -0500
From: Christopher L Cheney <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8: CONFIG_PCI_MSI should NOT be enabled!

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7
Version: 2.6.8-3
Severity: serious

Between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 the CONFIG_PCI_MSI config option was enabled it
was previously called CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR for reference. This is
normally defaulted off and suggests to be turned off as well. It causes
some systems including my laptop to no longer work at all under linux
since it changes how interrupt routing works. Also on lkml there are
threads suggesting not all drivers even work properly with MSI.

This bug also affects both pure64 (amd64) and Ubuntu linux kernels,
since both are derived from the official Debian ones.

Chris

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 8553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 8554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 8555 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

You reported this bug (both in bugzilla and Debian) against
"kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7"; we have no such package in Ubuntu, so please confirm
whether you experienced the problem with an Ubuntu kernel, and if so, precisely
which one.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

The one on the warty install iso for amd64. I looked through the component list and didn't see any for amd64 arch at all so
just selected what looked like a reasonable wrong one.

[Herbert Xu (herbert-gondor)]

Fixed in -9.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

-9 is now in the archive, closing

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:52:28 -0400
From: Andres Salomon <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#273569: kernel-image-2.6.8: CONFIG_PCI_MSI should NOT be
 enabled!

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tag 273569 + moreinfo
thanks

As I mentioned on irc, please provide a boot log (or thread of reasons
why MSI should be disabled). Without it, I have no proof that MSI is
actually causing any harm (nor any way to figure out how it may be
causing harm, and actually fix the problem, instead of blindly disabling
it).

For future reference, ubuntu is disabling MSI for this reason:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1779

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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:04:59 -0400
From: Andres Salomon <email address hidden>
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Subject: Re: Bug#273569: kernel-image-2.6.8: CONFIG_PCI_MSI should NOT be
 enabled!

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severity 273569 normal
thanks

I'll raise severity if I see proof that PCI_MSI is somehow wreaking
havoc upon the general debian populace.

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[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I thought I mentioned before but I don't see it in the thread, Fedora Core 3 Test 2 amd64 works fine on this laptop with
CONFIG_PCI_MSI. Tonight I tried to install Ubuntu again with the newer netinstall mini.iso that has CONFIG_PCI_MSI disabled
(-3) and now installation works fine. I am currently in the second stage of the installer downloading all the debs. I will
try to track down what the exact difference is between the Fedora Core 3 Test 2 kernel and the Ubuntu kernel which causes
the problem.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Apparently this slipped back in prior to release :-(

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

linux-source-2.6.8.1 (2.6.8.1-17) hoary; urgency=low

  * Revert pre-Warty regressions
  * [debian/config/i386/*] Disable CONFIG_PCI_MSI, enable
    CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK

 -- Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:16:09 -0800

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 8660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 11022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Subject: abi change, -1 to -2

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