Re: nobody cared about IRQ 19 (firewire, on a HP 2510p notebook)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:10 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I tend to believe it is a problem to be addressed in the x86
> platform support,
> > not a driver problem.
> 
> Depends. It might be unfixable.

We had a similar bogus interrupt issue on GSI 19 with 965gm chipset on
thinkpads recently that ended up being a BIOS issue misconfiguring
something deep inside the chipset. We never knew what exactly, except
that BIOS updates fixed it. Could be something similar.

Ben.


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