From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
Fabio Tudone <ftudone@libero.it>,
hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: IRQ assignment probs with "1st Supersonic M6T Gericom" laptop
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:21:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C309E9C.A3BB27E4@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112311810070.1366-100000@vaio>
Kai Germaschewski wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Fabio Tudone wrote:
>
> > The basic problem is that I've been able to get interrupts assigned to the
> > peripherals _only_ booting into Windows 2000 (other Windows versions won't
> > do the trick) _from poweroff_ and then booting into Linux (I think that in
> > fact it's a broken BIOS problem, but there are no upgrades available yet).
>
> Yes, the BIOS provided $PIR table seems broken.
>
> It would be nice if you could try whether ACPI IRQ routing works for you.
>
> To do so, get the latest ACPI (20011218) source release, from
> www.sf.net/projects/acpi and apply it to 2.4.17. Then, apply the appended
> patch.
To tangent, I think it would be useful to allow the bootloader to load
ACPI or $PIR or MP tables, in case someone is cutting costs [no tables]
or broken BIOS [replacement of broken tables].
Jeff
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 14:26 Fabio Tudone
2001-12-31 17:14 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-31 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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