[openib-general] APIC error

[Makia Minich]

* Roland Dreier (rdreier at cisco.com) wrote:
>     Makia> Using earlier BIOS versions, I don't see the issue at all,
>     Makia> but on the latest BIOS versions I'm dead in the water.  So,
>     Makia> I was hoping that someone else has seen this issue and
>     Makia> perhaphs might know of a workaround.
> 
> Are you enabling MSI or MSI-X for the ib_mthca module?  You could try
> without that if you are.
> 
> Otherwise, given that a BIOS update broke your setup, rolling back
> your BIOS seems like a reasonable workaround for now.  I would
> definitely try to get your BIOS vendor to help diagnose the issue if
> there's a fix you need in the newer BIOS.
> 
>  - R.

I'll try the MSI disabling, perhaps that might work.  Sadly I don't have an
option to down-rev the BIOS (this version is needed for IPMI 2.0 testing) and
Tyan appears to not have the same problem (IBGD seems to work for them).  I
was just hoping that someone else has seen the issues as well.

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