Re: [miniPatch] where IO-APIC still doesnt work ...

Emil Briggs (briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:06:28 -0500 (EST)

>this little deltapatch makes at least ASUS boards work too, but i suspect
>the Supermicro problem gets fixed too?
>

Worked for me with a SuperMicro P6DNE that would always hang when booting with
io-apic-patch-2.1.84-F -- precise reason being that the Buslogic driver
always tried to get IRQ 13 and failed. Anyway with the deltapatch and
pirq=0 everything seems to be working fine.

CPU0 CPU1
0: 23896 0 XT PIC timer
1: 401 243 IO-APIC keyboard
2: 0 0 XT PIC cascade
3: 1583 1106 IO-APIC serial
13: 4 0 XT PIC fpu
15: 0 9 IO-APIC ide1
17: 6537 6530 IO-APIC BusLogic BT-958
19: 111 115 IO-APIC DC21041 (eth0)
NMI: 0

>anyway, both success and failure reports welcome, ask me for mptable.c if
>you havent got it yet.
>

I didn't see mptable.c anywhere so please send it along.

Thanks
Emil