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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: Vergoz Michael <mvergoz@sysdoor.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 8139too.c patch for kernel 2.4.19
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:55:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD90D88.9020205@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <028901c28ead$10dfbd20$76405b51@romain>

Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Jeff,
> just as a hint: I do have a SiS based UP test system around that
> misbehaves with IO-APIC enabled.
> See
> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/slim_pc/slm/pro_slm_detail.php?UID=134&MODEL=MS-6232 
>
>  for more system details.
>  From the back of my head: with IO-APIC enabled and 3 RTL8139 (one on
> board, the other two PCI) the NICs get assigned IRQs 17 and 18 but don't
> seem to receive any interrupt at all. Without IO-APIC all three NICs
> share IRQ 11 and do work. Further details on request (very low priority
> problem for me). Oh, nearly forgot: kernel is 2.4.20rc1.


That's not going to be fixed by Michael's patch...  Any IOAPIC-related 
problems cannot be fixed at the driver level, but must be fixed by a 
BIOS update (or possibly an IOAPIC code fix).  Sometimes vendors do not 
bother do even wire the IOAPIC when it is a uniprocessor board :(

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-18 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-18  2:49 8139too.c patch for kernel 2.4.19 Vergoz Michael
2002-11-18  7:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18  8:50   ` Vergoz Michael
2002-11-18 17:04     ` Ducrot Bruno
2002-11-18  9:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 11:17   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-11-18 15:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-18 16:12   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-11-18 16:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 17:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 17:51   ` Vergoz Michael
2002-11-18 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 20:04   ` Vergoz Michael
2002-11-18 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 21:34 ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-18 17:15 Manfred Spraul

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