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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <be7a9f3d0911191311p45d4438bg84d55234eacdd320@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-23 21:40 ` Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll Andrew Morton
2009-11-23 23:31 ` Robert Hancock
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
[not found] ` <be7a9f3d0911240331n61637196gf243af4e607403ff@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <be7a9f3d0911240355s5a85545amb32d25a7df7e09f0@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200911241351.58032.jbe@pengutronix.de>
2009-11-27 17:38 ` Otavio Salvador
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