Comment 1 for bug 8557

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
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