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From: Pete Toscano <pete.lkml@toscano.org>
To: David DeGeorge <dld@degeorge.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APIC  usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:25:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010313002513.A1664@bubba.toscano.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103130245.f2D2j2J01057@janus.local.degeorge.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103130245.f2D2j2J01057@janus.local.degeorge.org>; from dld@degeorge.org on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:02PM -0500

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Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as
much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4
kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for
a while now.  I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it's a problem
with the PCI IRQ routing for the VIA chipsets, but I've been unable to
get anyone who knows about this to do anything (and I've been asking for
a while).  Alas, since this stuff is beyond me, I just accept the fact
that it'll probably always be broke.

pete

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David DeGeorge wrote:

> I am running 2.4.2 as obtained from redhat, but I have experienced the same 
> problems with a kernel compiled from the 2.4.2 sources at kernel.org.
> I am experiencing troubles with enabling MPS 1.4 and USB. I have an ABIT VP6 
> motherboard with two stock 733MHz PIIIs.
> If I set MPS1.1 in the bios then my IOmega Photoshow usb zip drive works, the 
> usb interrupt appears on irq 9 and after a day or two I experience  a hard 
> (sysreq doesn't work) lock. It seems usb related since doing usb things i.e. 
> mounting the drive sometimes cause the lock.
> If I set MPS1.4 in the bios  then the usb interrupt appears on irq 19, whose 
> count is alway zero, and the zip drive doesn't get registered. If give the 
> noapic command line then things appear to work, irq=9,don't know about the 
> hard locks, but booting seems much slower. Of course I can provide much more 
> information but I wonder is this a common problem and what are the 
> consequences of the noapic command?
> David

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-13  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-13  2:45 APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel David DeGeorge
2001-03-13  5:25 ` Pete Toscano [this message]
2001-03-13 11:59   ` Helge Hafting
2001-03-13 17:28   ` Greg KH
2001-03-13 17:49     ` Pete Toscano
2001-03-13 18:12       ` Greg KH
2001-03-13 20:51       ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2001-03-14  4:03       ` John R Lenton
2001-03-13 19:25     ` Juha Saarinen
2001-03-13 23:31       ` Pete Toscano
2001-03-13 23:48         ` Juha Saarinen
2001-03-13 22:51   ` idalton

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