From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:02 -0600 Message-ID: <4B0C6F4A.1080304@gmail.com> References: <20091123134002.bac1e664.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4B0B1B62.2030302@gmail.com> <4B0B36F0.30109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Otavio Salvador Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 11/24/2009 05:29 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello Robert, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robert Hancock 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?