From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264076AbUFVORx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:17:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264212AbUFVORw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:17:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27104 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264076AbUFVOPT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:15:19 -0400 Message-ID: <40D83EE8.6090700@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:15:04 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gin@ginandtonic.ca CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Don't want to share interrupts References: <000001c4585d$98896340$0c501709@IBM3B3C778F126> In-Reply-To: <000001c4585d$98896340$0c501709@IBM3B3C778F126> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org gin@ginandtonic.ca wrote: > I have been trying to get some platforms to work with a quad port > Ethernet card. > Some hardware is OK, others...well, not so OK. > > An IBM x335 works OK under Linux (2.4.9) and Win2K3 methinks this is a vendor kernel, not vanilla 2.4.9. As such, who knows what's in there... > An IBM x365 Does not work under Linux. > > Looks like Linux shares an IRQ between all 4 ports whereas win2k3 > doesn't .... each is assigned it's own IRQ. Is there anyway to > duplicate this behavior under Linux? (i.e. have an IRQ assigned to each > port instead of sharing one for the whole card?). IRQs are assigned by firmware. Try turning on/off io-apic or ACPI. But regardless, you'll need to provide a lot more information. See REPORTING-BUGS in the kernel tree. Jeff