From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:50:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:50:37 -0500 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:33541 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:50:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:59:15 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Justin Cormack Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: APIC with SIS Message-Id: <20030109175915.1c9dd425.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <1042130749.25527.5.camel@lotte> References: <20021230170822.1b79ebb3.skraw@ithnet.com> <1041267723.13956.24.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20021230173333.5f28edb9.skraw@ithnet.com> <1041268709.13684.28.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030109170948.7f8d4a42.skraw@ithnet.com> <1042130749.25527.5.camel@lotte> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09 Jan 2003 16:45:44 +0000 Justin Cormack wrote: > > > Current ACPI is on sourceforge. The SIS APIC workaround bits haven't yet > > > been backported to 2.4, so you either do the backport or wait 8) > > > > Ok, so I took ACPI from sf and voila: it works now! I took the patch for > > 2.4.20 and it does fine. Are there chances to include this in the > > mainstream? Without my SIS-based motherboards do not work at all with > > shared interrupts (which you actually cannot prevent due to lacking bios > > support for pci-irq mapping). > > > > BTW: I tried 2.4.21-pre[1-3] and none did work, of course. > > You may be able to disable the APIC in the BIOS. One of my new Sis > boards gave this option and it is an ok workaround for now at least. Unfortunately it is not. Shared interrupts do _not_ work with APIC disabled. They _only_ work with APIC enabled in BIOS _and_ APIC support patch from sf. I tested every other combination and none did work. -- Regards, Stephan