Re: Where do I send APIC victims?

[Greg Meyer <greg-AV60dr2H4Q3QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:23 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 9:08 am, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > As the maintainer of via-rhine, I get bug reports that almost in their
> > entirety are "fixed" by turning off APIC and/or ACPI. This has been going
> > on for several months now. Every now and then, something promising gets
> > posted on LKML, but so far if anything I've seen an _increase_ in those 
bug
> > reports. Maybe a fix is floating around and this will be a non-issue RSN. 
I
> > simply can't tell, since I don't have any IO-APIC hardware to play with.
> >
> > Instead of just telling everybody to turn off APIC, I'd like to point bug
> > reporters to the proper place and tell them what information they should
> > provide so it can get fixed for real. According to MAINTAINERS, Ingo 
Molnar
> > does Intel APIC, but the problems are with VIA chip sets. So where do I
> > send my users? Any takers?
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to develop patches for ACPI IRQ issues. 
> 
> Are these VIA KT333/KT400 chipsets? If so, there's a known bug in many 
BIOSes 
> with these chipsets. I'm waiting on some docs from VIA to fix this issue.
> 
I was just about to post that I have a Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra (black) with a 
integrated VIA Rhine II that has this problem.  I would really love to help 
solve this problem if I can.  I can provide any info you need as well as do 
some testing.



I have been using Mandrake, so I have been experiencing this because they have 
acpi turned on by default since a year (9.0).
-- 
Greg



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