Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re:RE: interrupts across PCI bridge(s) not handled | From | Frank Horowitz <> | Date | Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:12:26 +0800 |
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Linux Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Charles Martin wrote: > > > > I enabled ACPI, and the interrupts are now assigned correctly, > > and in the range of 48-51: > > Good. > > > I didn't realize that ACPI is related to interrupt management > > as well as power control. Is there any downside to using ACPI? > > The downside to ACPI is that it's a complex standard, and with > complexity > comes the inevitable bugs. As you just found out, it does a lot more > than > just power control (the "C" is for "Configuration"). > > On some machines the ACPI support is even more broken than other BIOS > tables, but it's getting better.
I infer from this discussion that the old (2.2.x-era) rule-of-thumb about disabling ACPI for SMP systems is now dangerous advice. True? (Even for a 2.4.x series kernel?) Any other "gotchas" with ACPI and SMP systems?
Frank Horowitz
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