From 309e57df7b766172ba137a8cbd909f88dd76e8e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:33:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Provide a boot parameter to disable MSI Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI. However, it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers should handle. So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7b7382d0f758..44a25f3f51d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: MCA MCA bus support is enabled. MDA MDA console support is enabled. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. + MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). MTD MTD support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NUMA NUMA support is enabled. @@ -1152,6 +1153,9 @@ running once the system is up. Mechanism 2. nommconf [IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI Configuration + nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is + enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to + disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with -- cgit v1.2.2