Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934467AbZKXXmI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:42:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934386AbZKXXmH (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:42:07 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:35540 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934380AbZKXXmG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:42:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J8L1UKBAD+K7LS6gaDNE7UrSEwACNzVi2aebnHm8tdG8NJFQ29G/InRCfI/RVie9ji OqvqMTC5INDxpT7vbSZbuLZ4IbA4lY3vzpm4m+zf9w71jYw0ZBCeN8yixFp6l8m/IpXw VpTCHorapgi+Cq17dOC9jH8e3dewLY1x8wiug= Message-ID: <4B0C6F4A.1080304@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:02 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-3.9.b4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Otavio Salvador CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll References: <20091123134002.bac1e664.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4B0B1B62.2030302@gmail.com> <4B0B36F0.30109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 27 On 11/24/2009 05:29 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello Robert, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: >> Looking at the BIOS manual on their web site: >> >> ftp://download@ftp.dmp.com.tw/vortex86sx/Vortex86SX_BIOS_Manual.pdf >> >> you can try toggling a few of the options: Try switching OnBoard IDE Operate >> Mode between Legacy Mode and Native Mode. If the kernel and the actual >> device disagree here, that could cause IRQ delivery problems. You can also >> try playing with the "Plug& Play OS" setting. > > The machine with me has no "OnBoard IDE Operate Mode" option. "Plug& > Play OS" has been tried with "Yes" and "No". > > If the kernel and the actual device disagree, could it also "break" > the ethernet adaptor? This also doesn't work. Well, the ethernet adapter would likely be a different problem. Do you get any interrupts showing up in /proc/interrupts for either the disk or the network adapter? -- 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/