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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jim has worked with the A8N-SLI board. We
have worked with a newer version called A8N32-SLI Deluxe which has much better
PCIe support. Ours has only run the gen1 stack so I have no idea what it does
with the gen2 stack. As for the BIOS issue mentioned perhaps Steve W could take
a look and see if the comment from Jason makes any sense but my impression is
that everything was just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Bill Boas
[mailto:bill.boas@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 15, 2006
10:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Bob Pearson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: [openib-general] Low
cost MBs compatible with Mellanox PCIE Cards</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Do we have something to contribute to this thread?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
<span class=gmailquote>From: <st1:PersonName w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Roland Dreier</span></b></st1:PersonName> <<a
href="mailto:rdreier@cisco.com">rdreier@cisco.com</a>></span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>Date: Feb 15, 2006 4:52 PM </span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>Subject: Re: [openib-general] Low cost MBs compatible
with Mellanox PCIE Cards</span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>To: Jason Gunthorpe <<a
href="mailto:jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com">jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com</a>></span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>Cc: <a href="mailto:openib-general@openib.org">openib-general@openib.org</a></span><br>
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Jason> Unfortunately the board's BIOS's ACPI tables are totally<br>
Jason> broken and the BIOS assigns every interrupt source in
the<br>
Jason> system to IRQ 5 :< At least it does work in full APIC
mode <br>
Jason> which means it might be possible to get MSI working if
the<br>
Jason> nvidia bridge isn't broken.<br>
<br>
I've not seen any problems with MSI/MSI-X with nforce4 and PCIe HCAs<br>
on both my Asus A8N-SLI and HP DL145G2 systems. <br>
<br>
Just building a kernel with CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled might help, since<br>
it changes the way the kernel numbers interrupts.<br>
<br>
- R.<br>
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