ASPM enabled by default - mild potential for breakage

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Fri Jul 17 04:49:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:28:57 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:

> I've just flicked ASPM (Active State Power Management - runtime power 
> saving on PCIe hardware) on by default, and it'll be that way in the 
> next rawhide kernel build. There's the potential for some buggy
> hardware to be upset by this. If your system no longer boots or some
> hardware doesn't work, try booting with the
> 

are you sure you want to do this?
the bios is supposed to set this up already...


... except on chipsets where there's known hw issues (first
generations) .... (including ICH7's etc)

so enabling it by force is maybe not always a good idea.

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