Re: lost interrupt hell - Plea for Help

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 May 2002 00:14:42 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >> Yeah, the spurious interrupt does seem to be an AMD apic problem, but the lost
> >> interrupt (on ripping audio) seems to be a VIA chipset problem, as people
> >> with KT266 chipsets are having boot problems / audio rip problems regardless
> >> of the processor type. Lucky me, I get both ;)
> >
> >  doesn't anybody know what the problem is? while it was reported quite
> >a few times there was no helpful response to the problem (positive
> >(fix)or negative (it's unlikely to be fixed).
> 
> As the person who added AMD K7 local APIC support to the kernel, I
> consider the _real_ problem to be the lack of adequate documentation.
> AMD has almost no documentation on the K7's machine-specific features,
> and VIA similarly don't seem keen on documenting their chipsets.
> 
> If someone were to find AMD K7 documentation at the level of Intel's
> IA32 Volume 3 manual (245272-006), and AMD K7 errata docs at the level
> of Intel's PIII (244453-nn) and P4 (249199-nn) specification updates,
> then I'd be happy to look at the K7 spurious interrupt problem.

  is the same true for 'lost interrupt' during audio ripping problem? I
mean it is fairly specific command so it might not be so hard to debug.
I have no experience with kernel - is there info available to get me
started in right direction?

	erik