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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:47:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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To: Robbert Kouprie <robbert@radium.jvb.tudelft.nl>
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Subject: RE: The buggy APIC of the Abit BP6
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Robbert Kouprie wrote:

> Problem now is, in the ack_none function we only know about the
> (illegal) vector we are getting, and not about the interrupt we need to
> reset. Could there be some kind of link between these, so that
> kick_IO_APIC_irq can be called from there?

 You get an invalid vector delivered due to massive transmission errors at
the inter-APIC bus.  The errors are a serious hardware problem that cannot
and should not be fixed in software.

 I'm told getting a better PSU may help, though. 

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