RE: interrupts across PCI bridge(s) not handled

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 19:32:43 EST



On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Charles Martin wrote:
>
> I enabled ACPI, and the interrupts are now assigned correctly,
> and in the range of 48-51:

Good.

> I didn't realize that ACPI is related to interrupt management
> as well as power control. Is there any downside to using ACPI?

The downside to ACPI is that it's a complex standard, and with complexity
comes the inevitable bugs. As you just found out, it does a lot more than
just power control (the "C" is for "Configuration").

On some machines the ACPI support is even more broken than other BIOS
tables, but it's getting better.

Linus

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