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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Robert W. Fuller" <orangemagicbus@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:31:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050315213110.75ad9fd5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4237C40C.6090903@sbcglobal.net>

"Robert W. Fuller" <orangemagicbus@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>  I never actually saw it work until I added the noapic option to the 
>  2.6.11.2 boot.  Now I can usually my USB mouse!  Of course the downside 
>  to specifying noapic is only one CPU is servicing interrupts on my SMP 
>  system.

Oh, OK.  I was just wondering whether this was an actual regression.  I
guess as it's an old machine and you have a workaround, we have other
things to be working on.

It would be nice to fix though.

>  It certainly doesn't work under 2.4.28, but I haven't tried specifying 
>  noapic to that kernel.  Would that be useful information?

Probably not.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-16  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-16  3:19 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI) Robert W. Fuller
2005-03-16  4:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16  5:28   ` Robert W. Fuller
2005-03-16  5:31     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-16  5:37       ` Robert W. Fuller
2005-03-16  5:54         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16  6:58           ` Robert W. Fuller
2005-03-16 17:19             ` Greg KH
2005-03-16 17:50               ` Robert W. Fuller
2005-03-16 17:56                 ` Greg KH
2005-03-16 10:00           ` Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt (Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)) Xavier Bestel
2005-03-16 10:08             ` Xavier Bestel
2005-03-16 17:17 ` 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI) Greg KH
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2005-05-12  8:47 paul

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