Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:58:06 -0400
Mike Houston <mikeserv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Thanks for your suggestions, I followed through on them. It may still
be interesting/useful to hear from me that it didn't help. The
problem is the same.

My motherboard is a newer revision (Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Rev 3.3) and
already had the "F10" bios version, but I flashed to the latest F11
version anyways. I also flashed with the EEPROM update from Gigabyte,
from a FAQ entry for my motherboard revision.
(faq_marvell_eeprom.zip). Both operations were successful. I cleared
the CMOS and reconfigured after the bios flash too.

Incidently, it was showing IRQ 16 in that early initialization
message, but actually getting a MSI interrupt (IRQ 219, PCI-MSI-edge)

I've disabled the onboard yukon2 adapter in bios and gone
back to the PCI card now. I think we can consider the matter closed,
since it's not a problem with the driver, but just so you know, I'm
always willing to help test when it's hardware that I have.

Mike Houston

There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller.
I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly
see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64.

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