Subject: Re: failure with ahc 7880
To: Geoffrey Lee <glee@bluesat.unsw.edu.au>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/08/2004 08:20:13
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?

If it's a more recent machine, acpi and MPACPI might work, but this looks
like an older one.

- Frank