Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:35:01 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Defect (Bug) Report |
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:21:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 12:49, Erik Mouw wrote: > > Exact BIOS revision doesn't seem to matter. Any more suggestions? > > BIOS revision matters too. With 1004 you need to set MP 1.1 not MP 1.4 > and APIC works reliably. With 1007 it seems that isnt needed but people > report weird hangs. 1004 also won't POST with a broadcom ethernet card > in it.
Yes, I've seen weird hangs with 1007 and MP 1.4. "noapic" fixes it. Do you suggest using MP 1.1 even with 1007?
> The proper fix for the PS/2 mouse/IDE problem appears to be always > mapping out the page at 636-640K. Andi posted an ugly patch to handle > that, but doing it cleanly is trickier.
I think I missed his patch, but a dirty trick I could think of would be to put a "reserved" entry in the e820 RAM map we got from the BIOS.
Erik
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