From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:38:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:38:32 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:22534 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:38:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5FB17C.A112F27B@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:38:04 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Alan Cox , Frank de Lange , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It may well not be disable_irq() that is buggy. In fact, there's good > reason to believe that it's a hardware problem. > Perhaps a problem with the 82093AA external IO APIC used for 440BX board? I haven't seen any reports from newer Intel boards (the ICH2 includes an IO APIC) or from Via boards. The problem is not SMP specific: Frank wrote that it also occured when he booted with "max_cpus=1". -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/