Re: APIC errors and aic7xxx interrupts w/SMP on 2.3.25

Harold Oga (ogah@telusplanet.net)
Mon, 08 Nov 1999 22:21:53 -0700


On 02:11 PM 11/9/99 +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp wrote:
>Thanks Doug,
>
>Your information suggests me to investigate USB devices.
>
>Doug Ledford writes:
> > This most likely means something besides the aic7xxx is making that
> > interrupt but as sson as the aic7xxx is loaded and that interrupt is
> > enabled then the other device (whatever it may be, check the output of
> > lspci to see if anything else is sharing that interrupt) is likely making
> > all those interrupts and that's what needs fixed.
>
>Because a USB mouse is attached and detected by the system, but no
>mouse motion or button events are tracked so far,
>It doesn't get any interrupts, inserting printk() into the
>corresponding handler produces nothing.
>
>I'm not at the machine site, so I'll report the result later.
Hi,
There is a known problem with USB on the BP6 if you have the bios
set to MPS v1.4. I would make sure that you have the bios set to MPS v1.1.

-Harold

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