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?
As far as I can say (as a lowly 2.6 Via user) for 2.5/2.6 the relevant
bug is :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845
Just tell your users to open a new bug (with system info, dmesg,
interrupts, dmidecode, acpidmp, etc) and make it block bug #845
resolution.
(btw the first registered via acpi bug is november 2002 bug #10, it just
got an initial fix that also worked for another #845 child bug. So
crossing fingers all this will be resolved soonish)
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Mailhot