Re: Partial success (Re: on-board rtl8139 fails.)
Donald Becker <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:33:59 -0500 (EST)
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On 8 Dec 2002, Jarl Friis wrote: > Donald Becker <[email protected]> writes: > > On 7 Dec 2002, Jarl Friis wrote: > > It likely changes the format of the IRQ mapping table. > > > I may try upgrading the BIOS... > > Do you have any URLs explaining issues like "format of the IRQ > mapping table"? No, but there have been many discussions and patches on the kernel mailing list. We (Scyld support) usually just recommend passing "noapic", which typically works around the problem on the SMP server machines most of our customers use. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993