>>Yet again, if i enable apic, the boot process hangs here:
>>sata_nv version 0.6
>>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
>>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 11
>>ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 11
>>
>>These are the last messages that I get. The same behaviour on both 
>>motherboard. Shoudl I enable apic, it hangs on that.
>>
>>When I disable apic, the boot sequence looks like:
>>
>>sata_nv version 0.6
>>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
>>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 11
>>ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 11
>>ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 
>>86:3e01 87:4003 
>>88:407f
>>ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48
>>nv_sata: Primary device added
>>nv_sata: Primary device removed
>>nv_sata: Secondary device added
>>nv_sata: Secondary device removed
> 
> 
> Can you send the output of "cat /proc/interrupts" and a "lspci -xxx" ? 
> 
> Also you may want to disable hotplug from the device table in sata_nv.c
> for now in case this has something to do with hotplug interrupts.

lspci -xxx attached.

However, this is the last kernel booted, 2.6.14-rc5, where it CAN boot 
with IO-APIC and seems to be working. I tend to believe this has 
something to do with adding those MCPxx chips support with GENERIC 
behaviour.

root@anarxi:~/bck# cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0       CPU1
   0:   65346785       4277    IO-APIC-edge  timer
   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   4:       9511          1    IO-APIC-edge  serial
   5:   18784254          1   IO-APIC-level  eth0
   8:          3          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  11:    4831679          5   IO-APIC-level  libata
NMI:          0          0
LOC:   65355312   65392463
ERR:          0
MIS:          2