Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrew de Quincey <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Where do I send APIC victims? | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:10:49 +0100 |
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> >>I can't back that. At least on all my Serverworks boxes there are no > >>problems with ACPI. I got reports from VIA-bases SMP boards that they are > >>doing well, too. (all for 2.4.22) > > And I can say that my Soyo SY-KT600 Ultra (VIA KT600+8237) has ACPI > problems as well. pci=noacpi doesn't help but acpi=off does. It gives > lots of errors that the ACPI tables are buggy when booting claiming > my 8237 SATA controller has gotten IRQ -19 for instance. > Using acpi=off solves the problem. This is with or without the libata > VIA 8237 SATA driver. Without anything it recognizes the chip but > doesn't like using IRQ -19 and doesn't see any disks. With pci=noacpi > it sees the disks but bombs out when trying to get the partition table. > It gets IRQ -19 still there. acpi=off makes it all work.
The IRQ -19 thing is a bug in my nforce2 patch in 2.4.22. It didn't drop back to using the PIC correctly. My latest acpi-picmode patch (posted to this list a few days back) corrects this, among other things.
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