Re: Lockups on 2.0.15-2.0.18

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:21:37 +0100 (BST)


> I know a number of people that have upgraded their uniprocessor
> machines to 2.0.18 and had no problems. Is there anything that has
> been added to SMP that might be causing problems?

The kernel was changed to use specific IRQ acknowlegdes. That causes some
chipsets to lose interrupts. Why and if thats a hardware or software problem
we don't know but using the 2.0.14 include/asm-i386/irq.h with .18 should
work for you. Let me know