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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0C6F4A.1080304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be7a9f3d0911240329r50ddb22dvd933f01d296295c1@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/24/2009 05:29 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robert Hancock<hancockrwd@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Looking at the BIOS manual on their web site:
>>
>> ftp://download@ftp.dmp.com.tw/vortex86sx/Vortex86SX_BIOS_Manual.pdf
>>
>> you can try toggling a few of the options: Try switching OnBoard IDE Operate
>> Mode between Legacy Mode and Native Mode. If the kernel and the actual
>> device disagree here, that could cause IRQ delivery problems. You can also
>> try playing with the "Plug&  Play OS" setting.
>
> The machine with me has no "OnBoard IDE Operate Mode" option. "Plug&
> Play OS" has been tried with "Yes" and "No".
>
> If the kernel and the actual device disagree, could it  also "break"
> the ethernet adaptor? This also doesn't work.

Well, the ethernet adapter would likely be a different problem. Do you 
get any interrupts showing up in /proc/interrupts for either the disk or 
the network adapter?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-24 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19 21:11 Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll Otavio Salvador
2009-11-20 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-23 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-23 23:31   ` Robert Hancock
2009-11-24  0:01     ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24  0:01       ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24  1:29       ` Robert Hancock
2009-11-24 11:29         ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24 23:42           ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-11-27 16:30             ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24  1:56       ` Len Brown
2009-11-24  9:32 ` Juergen Beisert
2009-11-24 11:31   ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24 11:55     ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-24 12:41       ` Juergen Beisert
2009-11-24 12:51       ` Juergen Beisert
2009-11-27 17:38         ` Otavio Salvador
2009-11-27 17:38         ` Otavio Salvador

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