From: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Where do I send APIC victims?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:23:58 +0100
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On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 9:08 am, Roger Luethi wrote:
> As the maintainer of via-rhine, I get bug reports that almost in their
> entirety are "fixed" by turning off APIC and/or ACPI. This has been going
> on for several months now. Every now and then, something promising gets
> posted on LKML, but so far if anything I've seen an _increase_ in those bug
> reports. Maybe a fix is floating around and this will be a non-issue RSN. I
> simply can't tell, since I don't have any IO-APIC hardware to play with.
>
> Instead of just telling everybody to turn off APIC, I'd like to point bug
> reporters to the proper place and tell them what information they should
> provide so it can get fixed for real. According to MAINTAINERS, Ingo Molnar
> does Intel APIC, but the problems are with VIA chip sets. So where do I
> send my users? Any takers?

Hi, I'm trying to develop patches for ACPI IRQ issues. 

Are these VIA KT333/KT400 chipsets? If so, there's a known bug in many BIOSes 
with these chipsets. I'm waiting on some docs from VIA to fix this issue.

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