Re: 8139too.c patch for kernel 2.4.19

Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18T16:40:12Z

Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > That's not going to be fixed by Michael's patch... Any IOAPIC-related
> > problems cannot be fixed at the driver level, but must be fixed by a
> > BIOS update (or possibly an IOAPIC code fix). Sometimes vendors do
> > not bother do even wire the IOAPIC when it is a uniprocessor board :(
>
>
> I just wanted to point exactly in that (IO-APIC) direction as a common
> source for trouble.

Oh agreed. A very annoying, common source of trouble :)