Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:38:04 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It may well not be disable_irq() that is buggy. In fact, there's good > reason to believe that it's a hardware problem. > Perhaps a problem with the 82093AA external IO APIC used for 440BX board? I haven't seen any reports from newer Intel boards (the ICH2 includes an IO APIC) or from Via boards.
The problem is not SMP specific: Frank wrote that it also occured when he booted with "max_cpus=1".
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