Subject: Re: failure with ahc 7880
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Geoffrey Lee <glee@bluesat.unsw.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 06/08/2004 13:46:19
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:27:18PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> More interesting would be the boot message of the failing kernel.
> I suspect an interrupt issue.
> 


That is available too for anyone interested.  :-)

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 ..

	-- g.
-- 
char p[] = "\xeb\x1f\x5e\x89\x76\x08\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x07\x89\x46\x0c\xb0\x0b"
  "\x89\xf3\x8d\x4e\x08\x8d\x56\x0c\xcd\x80\x31\xdb\x89\xd8\x40\xcd"
  "\x80\xe8\xdc\xff\xff\xff/bin/sh";