From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263524AbTJWLE0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:04:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263529AbTJWLEA (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:04:00 -0400 Received: from data.iemw.tuwien.ac.at ([128.131.70.3]:24965 "EHLO data.iemw.tuwien.ac.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263524AbTJWLD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:03:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3F97B5A4.1090203@tuwien.ac.at> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:04:04 +0200 From: Samuel Kvasnica Organization: IEMW TU-Wien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-at, cs MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Mikael Pettersson Subject: Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ? References: <3F95748E.8020202@tuwien.ac.at> <200310211113.00326.lkml@lpbproductions.com> <20031022085449.GA21393@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu> <3F96847C.4000506@tuwien.ac.at> <20031022133327.GA25283@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu> <3F97AACB.2020609@tuwien.ac.at> <16279.45595.995992.419848@alkaid.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <16279.45595.995992.419848@alkaid.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > What I'd like to know is whether this bug is AMD processor or chipset > > related. > >Chipset and/or BIOS. AMD processors are known to work in other mobos. > >You may try disabling just I/O-APIC or ACPI. > > No, only disabling local apic really helps. On both ASUS and MSI nforce2 motherboards. I can even enable apic and acpi with disabled local apic (anyway with XT-PIC only) and have no troubles. The lockups seem to appear when drivers heavily employing DMA are used (as udma5 hdd or framegrabber).