From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030188AbWI0Lmz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:42:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030187AbWI0Lmz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:42:55 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:63420 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030188AbWI0Lmy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:42:54 -0400 Subject: Re: Asus A7V133: IRQ6: nobody cared! From: Alan Cox To: Prakash Punnoor Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200609271215.32875.prakash@punnoor.de> References: <200609271215.32875.prakash@punnoor.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:07:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1159358869.11049.337.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Mer, 2006-09-27 am 12:15 +0200, ysgrifennodd Prakash Punnoor: > So my question, even if this is due to a broken bios, should a quirk be > inserted into linux to not allow to assign IRQ6 to a PCI device? I guess this > should prevent the issue. Not really. PC platforms without old style floppies, or when old style floppies are disabled can correctly assign IRQ 6 to PCI devices. This includes VIA systems, providing the floppy is disabled/off correctly. Alan