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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Juraj Bednar <juraj@bednar.sk>, acpi@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi breaks async interface
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:45:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010207114505.A122@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010206004642.A24599@rak.isternet.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20010206004642.A24599@rak.isternet.sk>; from Juraj Bednar on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:46:42AM +0100

Hi!

>  I just found a strange thing in 2.4.1 (don't know, if the same
> occured in 2.4.0) and 2.4.1-ac3. When I enable ACPI, my serial
> port starts to drop some characters. When making ppp over this
> and doing ping, it causes great packet losts. If I turn ACPI in
> this configuration off, it works with no problems. I tried to
> switch serial port IRQ to other one (was 4, switched to 3 and
> tested) and it didn't help. Maybe something's broken.
> 
>  ACPI related boot messages:
> 
> Feb  4 23:21:58 idoru kernel: ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20010125]
> Feb  4 23:21:58 idoru kernel: ACPI: Subsystem enabled
> Feb  4 23:21:58 idoru kernel: ACPI: System firmware supports: C2 C3
> Feb  4 23:21:58 idoru kernel: ACPI: System firmware supports: S0 S1 S4 S5
> 
> [root@idoru log]# cat /proc/interrupts 
>            CPU0       
>   0:      57278          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       2658          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   4:      49530          XT-PIC  serial
>   5:          1          XT-PIC  soundblaster
>  10:         15          XT-PIC  aha152x
>  11:         60          XT-PIC  eth0
>  12:      27772          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  14:     213118          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:       3298          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0 
> LOC:          0 
> ERR:          0

ACPI slows down CPU quite a lot. Maybe cpu is so slow it can no longer
handle serial in time?

Try running 

while(1);

program while doing serial transfers.
								Pavel
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-07 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-05 23:46 Juraj Bednar
2001-02-07 10:45 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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