Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:59:15 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: APIC with SIS |
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On 09 Jan 2003 16:45:44 +0000 Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com> wrote:
> > > Current ACPI is on sourceforge. The SIS APIC workaround bits haven't yet > > > been backported to 2.4, so you either do the backport or wait 8) > > > > Ok, so I took ACPI from sf and voila: it works now! I took the patch for > > 2.4.20 and it does fine. Are there chances to include this in the > > mainstream? Without my SIS-based motherboards do not work at all with > > shared interrupts (which you actually cannot prevent due to lacking bios > > support for pci-irq mapping). > > > > BTW: I tried 2.4.21-pre[1-3] and none did work, of course. > > You may be able to disable the APIC in the BIOS. One of my new Sis > boards gave this option and it is an ok workaround for now at least.
Unfortunately it is not. Shared interrupts do _not_ work with APIC disabled. They _only_ work with APIC enabled in BIOS _and_ APIC support patch from sf. I tested every other combination and none did work.
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