Re: IRQ Routing Problem on ALi Chipset Laptop (HP Pavilion N5425)

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:14:58 +0100


Hi!

> > Hey, this gross hack fixed USB on HP OmniBook xe3. Good! (Perhaps you
> > know what interrupt is right for maestro3, also on omnibook? ;-).
>
> On my Pavilion (and the other 5400's as far as I can tell), maestro's on
> irq 5. Wanna send me a "dump_pirq" and a "lspci -vvvxxx"? Could you try
> the patch below (inspired by/stolen from Kai Germaschewski)? Also, the
> newest acpi patch will print out the acpi irq routing table - might have
> your info. You can tell if the patch below had any effect because it
> will say it ASSIGNED IRQ XX instead of FOUND.

The patch should contain:

> The "honor the irq mask" approach (works on my machine):
> --- /home/cbell/linux-2.4/arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c Fri Dec 7 01:51:41 2001
> +++ /home/cbell/linux-2.4-test/arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c Sat Dec 8 21:04:37 2001
> @@ -581,6 +581,7 @@
> * reported by the device if possible.
> */
> newirq = dev->irq;
> + if (!((1 << newirq) & mask)) newirq = 0;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
printk(KERN_ERR "$PIR table inconsistent; chipset dependend code told
us interrupt is at %d, but irq mask is %lx\n", dev->irq, newirq);

We should never ever workaround BIOS problem without complaining.

Otherwise patch looks sane. Did you try submitting it to
linus/marcelo?
Pavel

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