Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

Ray Bryant (raybry@timesn.com)
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:40:25 -0500

I found a note about a bugzilla comment written by Doug Ledford at
RedHat at
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0508.html
that suggests a work around is to build the kernel with IO-APIC support.
This appears to fix the current problem. So unless something else comes
up,
I am "fixed" at the moment.

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
>
> >The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x (we've
> >tried 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).
> >The complete boot output is attached; the interesting parts are
> >as follows:
>
> This again looks like an interrupt problem (driver not seeing interrupts).
> To know for sure, I'd need to see the messages from an "aic7xxx=verbose"
> boot.
>
> --
> Justin

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