Manfred Spraul wrote:
: The errata is not PS/2 mouse specific:
: it says that the io apic doesn't implement masking interrupts correctly.
Yes, but it says that problem has not been observed when running
with PS/2 mouse. Which is exactly what I observe on my system.
:
: Linux uses masking aggressively - disable_irq() is implemented by
: masking the interrupt in the io apic. I'm surprised that this doesn't
: cause frequent problems.
The errata does not say that the interrupt masking in the IO-APIC
does not work in all situations. I read it as the lock-up (caused by
nonfunctional IRQ masking) sometimes occurs, nobody knows when,
and it has been observed on some Netware boxes w/o the PS/2 mouse.
Maybe even AMD does not know exactly what is going on there.
: Regarding Jan's problem: I'm not sure if his problems are related to
: this errata. It says that using a PS/2 mouse instead of a serial mouse
: with Novell Netward avoids the hang during shutdown, probably because
: then netware doesn't mask the irq.
Yes, it may be a faulty board as well, but I think it is
too close to this AMD errata.
-Yenya
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