Re: 2.6.9-mm1: NForce3 problem (IRQ sharing issue?)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday 25 of October 2004 16:45, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > > So did the system still misbehave? What happened?
> > 
> > So far, so good.  The problem has not happened yet, so I think it won't.  
> > Still, I have no such problems with 2.6.9*, although I do not boot them 
with 
> > noapic ...
> > 
> > Thanks for your help anyway,
> 
> Ok, perhaps you shouldn't thank me ;) I actually sortof kinda broke your 
> box... The reason why it worked before was because the kernel defaulted to 
> disabling the IOAPIC on all nforce3 based systems but we found out that 
> most nforce3 systems are actually work with the IOAPIC if we just ignore 
> some bogus ACPI BIOS information. Your system happens to be one of the 
> more broken ones, i'd actually like to try debug your problem a bit 
> further, could you open up a bugzilla entry at bugzilla.kernel.org and 
> email me when you're done. In the meantime, just keep booting with 
> 'noapic'

OK
The bugzilla entry is at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3639

Greets,
RJW

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