Re: Where do I send APIC victims?

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:23 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote:

On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 9:08 am, Roger Luethi wrote:

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As the maintainer of via-rhine, I get bug reports that almost in their
entirety are "fixed" by turning off APIC and/or ACPI. This has been going
on for several months now. Every now and then, something promising gets
posted on LKML, but so far if anything I've seen an _increase_ in those 

bug

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reports. Maybe a fix is floating around and this will be a non-issue RSN. 

I

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simply can't tell, since I don't have any IO-APIC hardware to play with.

Instead of just telling everybody to turn off APIC, I'd like to point bug
reporters to the proper place and tell them what information they should
provide so it can get fixed for real. According to MAINTAINERS, Ingo 

Molnar

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does Intel APIC, but the problems are with VIA chip sets. So where do I
send my users? Any takers?

Hi, I'm trying to develop patches for ACPI IRQ issues. 

Are these VIA KT333/KT400 chipsets? If so, there's a known bug in many 

BIOSes 

with these chipsets. I'm waiting on some docs from VIA to fix this issue.

I was just about to post that I have a Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra (black) with a 
integrated VIA Rhine II that has this problem.  I would really love to help 
solve this problem if I can.  I can provide any info you need as well as do 
some testing.



I have been using Mandrake, so I have been experiencing this because they have 
acpi turned on by default since a year (9.0).
-- 
Greg



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