Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 12:26:41 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: locked 3c905B with 2.4.5pre2 |
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Julian Anastasov wrote: > > eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
This is a failure of the APIC interrupt controller in the 2.4 kernel. You'll need to boot your kernel with the `noapic' LILO option. Or run -ac kernels, which have a software workaround which fixes the problem.
Rumour has it that the APIC fix will be merged into Linus' tree very soon. It needs to be - one of the more important ethernet drivers is basically unviable on x86 SMP in 2.4.
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