Tejun Heo wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 10:17:34 7091@blargh.com wrote:
>>
>>>> Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might
>>>> not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA? 
>>> No, I haven't.  Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD drivers seemed to work, 
>>> or at least did with similar tests.  I would need to run the more extensive 
>>> checks to be positive, but those take a lot of time, obviously.  And 
>>> downtime for the box, a lot of which isn't really manageable, at the moment. 
>> Perhaps the OpenBSD drivers program the SIL chip in a different way
>> that avoids this problem. 
>>
>>>> e.g. if you have some other system with a different chipset it might
>>>> be useful to test the SIL controllers in those.
>>> The previous motherboard was an AMD 760 chipset, and it had the same 
>>> problem. 
>> Ok this means it's likely a SIL issue, not a chipset issue.
> 
> Hmmmm... okay.  I'll take look at the openBSD driver.  I still have no
> idea what it can be tho.  Maybe, FIFO setup?

Please give a shot at the attached patch on top of 2.6.22.  Thanks.

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tejun