Re: [BUG] e1000 fails on 2.4.26+bk with CONFIG_SMP=y

Joe Korty
2004-04-19T22:04:40Z

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:16:58PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:54:25PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> > >
> > > Uniprocessor 2.4.26 works fine.
> > > Uniprocessor 2.4.26 + local apic works fine.
> > > Uniprocessor 2.4.26 + local apic + io apic fails.
> >
> > interesting. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to try on the machine I told
> > you about last day. But right here, I have a dual athlon communicating with
> > an alpha, both with e1000 (544) in 2.4.26. Since there's a PCI bridge on your
> > quad, I wonder if the IOAPIC doesn't trigger an interrupt routing problem with
> > bridges. Are all the ports unusable or do some of them work reliably in APIC
> > mode ?
>
> Joe could you also try it without ACPI if possible.

That was it. Actually I had CONFIG_ACPI off (unknown reasons, inherited
.config), when I turned it on the board started to work.

Thanks everyone for all the input.

Joe