Re: problems with CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR in 2.6.1

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Sat Jan 10 2004 - 00:24:59 EST


On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 06:21, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
> When I tried a 2.6.1 kernel with CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR, my onboard
> Ethernet (sis900) produced nothing but watchdog timeouts. It worked
> fine with the old IRQ routing.
>
> When I looked in /var/log/syslog, I noticed that the Ethernet driver
> was using a different IRQ, so I suspected the vector routing. I found
> the following suspicious entries:
>
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf11b0, last bus=1
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-20 -> 0xa9 -> IRQ 20 Mode:1 Active:1)
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: ACPI: SCI (IRQ20) allocation failed
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: ACPI-0133: *** Error: Unable to install System Control Interrupt Handler, AE_NOT_ACQUIRED
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: Trying to free free IRQ20
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [1039/0963] at 0000:00:02.0
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 0!
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar last message repeated 9 times
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 1!
> Jan 9 20:09:08 jaguar kernel: PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 0!
>

Looks like acpi failing - what about trying with latest acpi update:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm1/broken-out/acpi-20031203.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm1/broken-out/acpi-20031203-fix.patch


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Martin Schlemmer

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