Re: Linux 2.4.20 + SiS + Adaptec AHA-7850

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
22 Apr 2003 15:27:30 +0100

On Maw, 2003-04-22 at 03:38, war wrote:
> Does not work...
> Boots up, probes each ID, fails, takes 15-20 sec per timeout for each ID,
> then actually does boot after (15-20sec)*7ID for that board.
>
> I used same exact (SCSI-CONFIG) for VIA board, worked fine, guess there
> are problems with IRQs or something?

If you are using SiS SMP boards or have built for local apic support it
will fail with most SiS boards. Linux and SiS APIC don't get on with one
another (we trigger a chip quirk). Boot with "noapic" option if so.

2.5.x does handle this

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