Re: broadcom 5752 in HP dc7600U works on 2.6.13 but does not workingon 2.6.16

[Barry Scott]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:54:56 +0100
> Barry Scott <barry.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
...
> > I'm willing to help get this fixed. I'm happy working inside kernels and 
> > drivers
> > but will need some guidance to know where to focus to track this down.
> >     
>
> ACPI, most likely.
>
>   
> > The obvious problem is solve is why are no interrupts being received by
> > the tg3.c code.
> >
> > Which kernel should I use to debug this? 2.6.17 latest RC?
> > Which debug options do you suggest I turn on to get closer to the problem?
> > What information should I collect?
> >     
>
> A git-bisect search would be a suitable way of finding out where it broke.
>
> But then, we don't know if this machine has _ever_ worked with IO-APIC's
> enabled, do we?
>   
From the point of view of APIC its not a regression. Isn't the way 
forward to find out
why it does not work now as there is no old code that did work to 
compare to?

Barry

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