linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

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Message-ID: <20070521103755.51b954e1@freepuppy>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mike Houston <mikeserv@...s.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400
Mike Houston <mikeserv@...s.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a
> > sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and
> > configurations, I made the decision not to enforce restrictions in
> > the driver.
> 
> >> May 20 15:57:48 cramit kernel: sky2 0000:04:00.0: v1.14 addr
> >> 0xf8000000 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 2
> 
> Thank you for your answer. I was half wondering if that was the case
> after staring at those log messages several more times. I don't
> understand hardware at the low level but got thinking maybe interrupt
> routing issue. There's an Nvidia PCI Express card in there that gets
> IRQ 16, though it was not initialized by a driver at the time. (plain
> old VGA console after fresh cold boot... no framebuffer, no X, no
> nvidia module). I guess some things don't share well.
> 
> It works well in that other OS that came with the hardware, but
> that's beside the point.

It is some low level PCI Express related stuff, try latest BIOS (F9)
and if that doesn't help there is a EEPROM update from Gigabyte
for the Marvell hardware that might help.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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