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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Russ W. Knize" <russ@knizefamily.net>
Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tyan Tiger 100 (S1832) IO-APIC Problems
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:44:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225084415.78d099f5.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077690954.28353.6.camel@localhost>

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:35:55 -0600 Russ W. Knize wrote:

| Just in case anyne might be interested, I have been trying to debug this
| issue.  It seems that pirq_find_routing_table() is not locating the
| table in the range it is looking.  I turned on debug trace and added
| some other debug code.  The PIRQ signature is not there in that range at
| all.  Without the table, the router is not identified.  I also tried
| forcing ACPI to be enabled, but that didn't seem to help.

I don't know anything about the Tyan Tiger 100, but the PIRQ table
was an M$ creation for Win 98 or thereabouts.  ACPI interrupt
routing has replaced it on some systems, so I don't find it
surprising that the PIRQ table isn't found.  Of course, I guess
that it could be there and Linux just isn't finding it, wherever
it's hidden.  Tough to say which case it is.

I also don't recall the particular problems that you are having.
Is it IO-APIC problems (as in $Subject), or is it just interrupt
routing in general?  If the latter, perhaps asking your questions
on the Linux ACPI mailing list would lead to some answers for you.
(acpi-devel@lists.sf.net)

| Whether or not any of this matters in the end is a little unclear to me
| at this point.  I have experience with (c)PCI, but not on x86 hardware. 
| Is there an online resource that explains how the APIC is supposed to
| work in a bit more detail?  There aren't very many comments in the code
| to go on.

There are APIC and IO-APIC datasheets available from Intel and
probably other processor and chipset manufacturers, but they are
sorely lacking in anything similar to a theory of operation.

--
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17 21:02 Tyan Tiger 100 (S1832) IO-APIC Problems Russ W. Knize
2004-02-18  6:52 ` Russ W. Knize
2004-02-19  1:38 ` Russ W. Knize
2004-02-25  6:35   ` Russ W. Knize
2004-02-25 16:44     ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-25 17:23       ` Russ W. Knize

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