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SubjectRE: Missing interrupts?
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SA,

>How did you check that the driver was asserting the interrupt? (do you have
an
>additional way of monitoring it?) I have yet to fully investigate my
problem
>and an additional tool to check if my board is actually asserting the
>interrupt (and to find out how far it gets) would be very handy,

We hooked up a logic analyzer to the board and saw that the interrupt was
being asserted.

>> Are you running these tests using the same board? You might try moving
the
>> board for this device driver from the athlon PC to the pentium 4 PC just
to
>> insure it is not a problem with the board.

>Same board each time



>>...
>>....
>> Is the value in pi_stage.interrupt assigned from the irq element of the
>> pci_dev structure (returned by pci_find_device routine)? This is the
>> preferred way to obtain your IRQ rather than look directly at your
device's
>> config space.

>I am currently inspecting the board config space - I will modify and test -
is
>it possible for the config space to be "wrong".

The kernel can re-map things. See pci.txt in the Documentation directory of
the source tree.

>> Even though you are indicating that you will share the IRQ, have you
tried
>> adjusting BIOS settings or moving board to another slot to try to
establish
>> a unique IRQ for yourself? That would at least prevent another device
>> driver from getting in your way.

>The card and driver share "nicely" with a random assortment of hardware on
the
>"good" machines - I will try to get it a unique (or at least different
>interrupt) on the bad machine (it current shares with usb on int 9 which
>never seems to get any interrupts) and see how this pans out

It's worth trying. Just to know that nothing else is messing you up!

Good luck!
Kathy


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