Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:02:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:02:02 -0500 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:19472 "EHLO zeus.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:02:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD91164.6030007@domdv.de> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:12:20 +0100 From: Andreas Steinmetz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Vergoz Michael , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 8139too.c patch for kernel 2.4.19 References: <028901c28ead$10dfbd20$76405b51@romain> <3DD89813.9050608@pobox.com> <003b01c28edf$9e2b1530$76405b51@romain> <3DD8AD5D.9010803@pobox.com> <3DD8CC44.9060104@domdv.de> <3DD90D88.9020205@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 17 Jeff Garzik wrote: > That's not going to be fixed by Michael's patch... Any IOAPIC-related > problems cannot be fixed at the driver level, but must be fixed by a > BIOS update (or possibly an IOAPIC code fix). Sometimes vendors do not > bother do even wire the IOAPIC when it is a uniprocessor board :( I just wanted to point exactly in that (IO-APIC) direction as a common source for trouble. -- Andreas Steinmetz D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/