From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: bazooka@enclavenet.hu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: io-apic not working on i850mv(p4)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:42:01 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203241442.PAA10726@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:05:14 +0100, Banai Zoltan wrote:
>He said that CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y means that if
>IO-APIC _is_ present on the motherboard then it will be used.
>
>But i pointed out that acording to intel's
>i850MV board specification update:
>ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/mv/A7258705.pdf (8-9 page)
>this motherboard supports 16 irq in PIC mode and 24 in APIC mode.
>
>So it seems to me that the problem is with kernel-bios communication.
>Maybe the kernel needs the bios to supply the SMP layout?
>Or ther is need to relocate the DMI scan to early boot stage?
My ASUS P4T-E is supposed to have an IO-APIC in its 850 chipset,
and the BIOS setup does allow me to specify apic delivery mode,
but I've never been able to get the kernel (SMP or UP_IOAPIC)
to detect the IO-APIC.
My guess is that Linux only finds the IO-APIC if it's listed in
the MP-table. Perhaps newer boxes publish the info via ACPI?
/Mikael
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-24 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-24 14:42 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2002-03-24 17:14 ` Banai Zoltan
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2002-03-23 17:17 Banai Zoltan
2002-03-23 19:27 ` Janos Farkas
2002-03-23 21:34 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-03-23 23:01 ` Banai Zoltan
2002-03-24 14:05 ` Banai Zoltan
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