Re: Interrupt Storms on irq:11 with Tecra A4

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 01:09 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>  > John Baldwin wrote:
>  > > On Sunday 06 August 2006 05:01, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>  > >   
>  > >> Thank you very much John for your great help and support. Now that I
>  > >> have the patch working, do I need to remove the entries
>  > >> hw.pci.link.LNKG.irq=11
>  > >> hw.pci.link.LNKH.irq=11
>  > >>
>  > >> from my /boot/loader.conf?
>  > >>     
>  > >
>  > > No.  The patch lets those entries actually work, so leave them there. :)
>  > >
>  > >   
>  > OK
>  > >> I assume I have to do this every time I buildworld, right?
>  > >>     
>  > >
>  > > No, I'll commit the patch and once it is MFC'd you won't have to re-apply it 
>  > > after running cvsup.  Until then, you will have to apply it each time after 
>  > > you cvsup.  I think you can ignore the 'unretryable' errors from cd0 btw.
> 
> John: does anything much still get MFC'd back to 5-STABLE these days? 
> Are there any reasons not to go to 6 with old kit that works well with
> APM (esp suspend/resume) but not so far with ACPI?  (ref: '99 Compaq
> Armada 1500c)
> 
>  > This is great news, thank you so much :) 
> 
> Yousef: good to see perseverance further!
> 
> Just curious .. was that DB-25 on your Tecra a parallel port after all?
> And if so, has fixing this interrupt storm problem fixed ppc0 detection?
> 
I'm sorry Ian, I was going through my old messages and suddenly saw
yours :)
yes, the DB-25 is a parallel port. However, the fix for the interrupt
storm did not fix detecting the ppc0.
dmesg | grep -i ppc0
ppc0: parallel port not found

> Cheers, Ian
>

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