Sent to linux-ide ml several weeks ago and received no response. Cc'ing to
linux-kernel in the hopes someone will be able to figure out whats wrong
with amd8111 apic.
Responses in email please as im not subscribed to the list.
-Dan
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <[email protected]>
To: J. Ryan Earl <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.6 amd8111 dma bugs
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Fri, May 28 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
> >>replies to email as i'm not subscribed to the list.
> >>There seem to be regular dma timeouts:
> >>hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> >>hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
> >>hdc: lost interrupt
> >>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> >>hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> >>hda: lost interrupt
> >>Hardware:
> >>Opteron 140, Tyan Tomcat K8S (S2850)
> >Try disabling ACPI (in .config or boot acpi=off iirc)
> I had that problem, but not with ACPI, only when I forced APIC on. It
> was on the VIA controller which uses the same driver.
Turns out it was apic and not acpi at all. Booting with ACPI but noapic
and I no longer get any dma errors.
Is the bug in the linux apic code or a hardware flaw in the opteron cpu?
Or something else?
-Dan