Re: Fwd: [Bug 4774] e1000 driver works on UP, but not SMP x86_64

David Lang
2005-06-29T07:37:34Z

just to make things more interesting, I have this card working on a dual
athlon system (with the attached config) on 2.6.7

David Lang

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, David Lang wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bug 4774] e1000 driver works on UP, but not SMP x86_64
>
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
>> ------- Additional Comments From nacc@us.ibm.com 2005-06-25 10:55 -------
>> Hrm, that means that the corresponding PCI device (adapter->pdev->irq) is
>> requesting an IRQ greater than 224? Could you also attach the SMP .config?
>> I
>> assume all you did was enabled SMP, ran make oldconfig & rebuilt? Do you
>> know of
>> any kernel that *does* work?
>
>
> I have a dual athlon system which I have used with one of these cards without
> a problem, monday I'll try pulling some of the cards out of a machine and see
> if that eliminates the error.
>
> I had the SMP config, tested it, then disables SMP and recompiled to generate
> the .config I sent earlier
>
> attached is the config I used with the debug test
>
> David Lang
>
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> so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to
> make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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