Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:32:39 -0800 | Subject | Re: 2.4.3: still experiencing APIC-related hangs | From | idalton@ferret ... |
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:32:24PM +0200, Frank de Lange wrote: > Hi'all, > > Subject says it all: 2.4.3 (unpatchaed) is still causing the dreaded > APIC-related hangs on SMP BX systems (Abit BP-6, maybe Gigabyte). I still need > to apply one of Maciej's patches to get rid of these hangs. The source comments > in arc/i386/kernel/apic.c ("If focus CPU is disabled then the hang goes away") > are incorrect, as the hang does not go away by simply disabling focus CPU. The > only way for me to get rid of the hangs is to apply patch-2.4.1-io_apic-46 > (which does the LEVEL->EDGE->LEVEL triggered trick to 'free' the IO_APIC). I've > been running with this patch for quite some time now, and have not experienced > any problems with it. Maybe it it time to include it in the main kernel, > perhaps as a configurable option ("BROKEN_IO_APIC")? > > Maciej, did you submit the patch to Linus? It really seems to solve the > (occurence of the) problems with these boards...
Where is this patch found? I am not seeing it so far on kernel.org.
-- Ferret
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