Re: 2.6.24-rt1 IRQ routing anomaly

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:08 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > To prove this is the problem, boot with noapic in the kernel command line.
> > > > 1) the problem should disappear.
> > > > 2) (I'm betting) you see that the eth and EMU10K1 share the same
> > > >    interrupt line.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yep, you were right. They do share the same IRQ and the problem does go away.
> > > Unfortunately  I can't run this machine with noapic. I need irq affinity.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for verifying. OK, I'll see if I can get the workaround on i386.
>
> What's the situation with this one? Want me to look at it?

Jon,

The board Mark has may just be some cheap hardware. It would be great
that RT would work on all boxes, but I'm not sure we want to spend time on
"broken-by-design" hardware while there's bigger fish in the sea to catch.

The current workaround is just use noapic, although I do understand
that's not good enough for Mark. But I'm sure Mark has other hardware
he could use ;-)

-- Steve