Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13T01:38:41Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> It may well not be disable_irq() that is buggy. In fact, there's good
> reason to believe that it's a hardware problem.
>
Perhaps a problem with the 82093AA external IO APIC used for 440BX
board? I haven't seen any reports from newer Intel boards (the ICH2
includes an IO APIC) or from Via boards.

The problem is not SMP specific: Frank wrote that it also occured when
he booted with "max_cpus=1".

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Manfred