Subject: Re: failure with ahc 7880
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Geoffrey Lee <glee@bluesat.unsw.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 06/09/2004 12:33:06
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:20:13AM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:46:19PM +1000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > I think I should have been a bit clearer in my first message. Yes, you are
> > right, I suspect that it is an interrupt issue too. The ahc driver will
> > send a WDTR message, to which the card replies. In uniprocessor mode this
> > works, but in multiprocessor after the WDTR message is sent, then it believes
> > it times out.
> >
> > The only difference that I can see is that the ioapic is enabled in MP
> > mode ..
>
> Yeah, it's an interrupt problem.. can you try a kernel with MPVERBOSE
> and send the boot messages?
>
Sure. I'll do that in a private mail.
> If it's a more recent machine, acpi and MPACPI might work, but this looks
> like an older one.
>
I tried that too before, actually, but unfortunately it does not have
ACPI. Sigh.
- g.
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