Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add _PRT quirks to work around broken firmware

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On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008 09:40:04 pm Len Brown wrote:
> > Is it true that simply enabling pci=routeirq on these boxes
> > is an insufficient workaround?
> 
> I'm told that pci=routeirq is a sufficient workaround for the
> first two issues, but I verified that it is not sufficient on
> the t5710.
> 
> On the t5710, even with pci=routeirq, as soon as we turn on the
> radeon interrupt, it starts generating interrupts on LNK3.  Since
> the radeon driver isn't listening there, we eventually turn off
> that IRQ, killing other other devices sharing it as a side-effect.
> 
> I don't know why pci=routeirq works on the other two boxes.  Maybe
> because of your guess below.

okay, then lets go with the precise workaround you proposed.

thanks,
-Len

> > I suspect the answer is yes, because when pci=routeirq works
> > we may just be lucky -- eg. we happen to assign the real
> > and the fake link to the same IRQ and thus the driver
> > actually registers for the correct IRQ, but by accident.
> > 
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