Re: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (the linuxbios compatible version) problems

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:10:15 +0100 ST <st@iss.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to boot 2.6.20.2 on a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 with f7 stock bios.
> I get the message:
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
> ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
> ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!
> 
> I can boot with noapic option but then i only have one processor (AMD X2 3800+ 
> stepping 02).
> 
> apic=debug doesn't give any more output than this. 
> 
> A bios update didn't help to the f7 version didn't help. This error is also 
> present with the debian stock kernel.
> 
> I thought that this MB should be pretty good supported, given the fact that 
> there is an linuxbios in the works for this MB or am i bitten by a HW 
> failure?
> 

Apparently pci=noacpi fixes this.

ST (what sort of a name is that?): please raise a report against ACPI
at bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks.