Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:22:20 -0800 From: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim@gmail.com> Subject: RE: bge driver and MSI Message-ID: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A31693938@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <4B1DB10A.5060005@elischer.org> References: <2f7feda40912010931i3cf7d90dmb2a8d08ecd40589f@mail.gmail.com> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A3169363C@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <4B1DB10A.5060005@elischer.org>
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> > MSI is broken on this device (actually all PCI/PCI-X devices in the > > 57XX family). The interrupt will be asserted as expected > but masking > > the interrupt does not work. For those newer 1Gb PCIe > devices that do > > work correctly with MSI, only a single message is actually > supported. > > Might be a good thing of someone would work up a man page > paragraph to this effect. > As a more general question, what would be the right medium to document such device errata as it relates to a driver? Is the man page the best location or would it be better to add a table near the top of the driver file which summarizes the bugs and the workarounds? Is there a general consensus? Dave
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