Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMP interrupt patches.. | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:17:55 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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> > And that's really the problem here: we can ask the BIOS how the mapping > > goes, but whether we get the right answer is not necessarily dependable. > > The MP table is definitely not dependable. > > Nod. We do have a dependable vendor/revision ID so we can build a > "whitelist" of good boards and hopefully a blacklist of __initdata > translation tables for common vendor boards that are wrong. > > Alan
Not necessarily. My Tyan Tomcat II doesn't even manage to fill that in properly: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17 Processor #1 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17
It reports two processors when there's only one, and the chances of it reporting IRQ mappings properly are two thirds of F. all.
Incidentally, Tyan don't seem to care that their boards are so broken. I've asked their tech. support whether a fixed BIOS is likely to appear, and they haven't even bothered to respond, in spite of my telephoning to attempt to elicit a response to the third attempt.
(Cc: Tyan UK, in an fourth attempt to get them to at least acknowledge the problem) -- ---- ---- ---- David Woodhouse, Robinson College, CB3 9AN, England. (+44) 0976 658355 Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk http://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk finger pgp@dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk for PGP key.
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