Re: 8139too.c patch for kernel 2.4.19

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:47:08 -0500


Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > That's not going to be fixed by Michael's patch... Any IOAPIC-related
> > problems cannot be fixed at the driver level, but must be fixed by a
> > BIOS update (or possibly an IOAPIC code fix). Sometimes vendors do
> > not bother do even wire the IOAPIC when it is a uniprocessor board :(
>
>
> I just wanted to point exactly in that (IO-APIC) direction as a common
> source for trouble.

Oh agreed. A very annoying, common source of trouble :)

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