Re: locked 3c905B with 2.4.5pre2

From: Julian Anastasov (ja@ssi.bg)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 04:22:15 EST

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Hello,

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrew Morton 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.

Yes, it seems noapic solved the problem with the lockup :(

> 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.

Agreed :) The performance sucks without apic.

Regards

-- Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

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