On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:00:44 +0100 Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 15:54 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:46:38PM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > > > > > yap, in my opinion this function should back to > > > > > +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_ENABLE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_ANY_ID, quirk_via_irq); > > > > > > this is *obviousyl* wrong, it should never have been merged like that > > and there are reports and complaints this causes problems for some > > people > > > > It was like that in kernel 2.6.16 and previous since, I don't know, > 2.6.9 or 2.6.13 .... > > > > > we should first attempt to get all the IDs (some are clearly missing > > still, patch coming up to address that) and where that fails perhaps > > have a kernel command-line parameter to be overly aggressive as a > > stop-gap until we van figure out the proper solution > > I believe this quirks is just for VIA system with interrupts in XT-PIC > mode (like my old laptop). This sounds like just running with CONFIG_IO_APIC=n or using "noapic" on the kernel boot command line. If that's what is needed, we can know that. I just haven't seen info to know what the real problem is. > > i'd also like to figure out why the quirk is needed/fails when people > > are using ACPI for interrupt routing as presumbly that must work as > > windows relies on it > > yes, this is other mysterious, why boot with acpi=noirq could be one > workaround. But could be other problem more related with usb drives. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
