From: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@alcatel.ch>
Reply-To: daniel.ritz@gmx.ch
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Kitt Tientanopajai <kitt@gear.kku.ac.th>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix Acer TravelMate 360 interrupt routing
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:47:35 +0200
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On Wednesday 14 April 2004 03:26, Len Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:24, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> >  ... routing via ACPI fails too.
>
> Does everything work when booted in ACPI mode with "pci=noacpi"?

i think yes.

but let's ask the originator of the bug report. kitt you there?

and a pointer to the original discussion.
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108113124000003&r=1&w=2
i first thougt it was the cardbus bridge sending the pci interrupt thru the
interrupt serializer, but that was not the case.

some other pointers to the problem:
	http://www.naos.co.nz/hardware/laptop/acer-361evi/x94.html#AEN138
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=533863&group_id=2405&atid=102405


>
> If so, I wouldn't be eager to add a model-specific !ACPI mode workaround
> -- which if it goes into the kernel will be there forever.
>
> Also, I'm not enthusiastic about adding the dmi entry for "pci=noacpi"
> until we've taken a swing at finding out why Linux/ACPI doesn't work out
> of the box on this platform and given up.  For we might find a fix for
> this platform that helps other platforms.  Adding the platform-specific
> automatic workaround just masks the problem for owners of that exact
> model.
>
> So for the ACPI mode part, I encourage you to file a bug here
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI
> Component Config-Interrupts
> and assign it to me.  Or if a bug is open already,
> please direct me to it.
>
> thanks,
> -Len

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