On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote:
> Would I be able to test if Linux 2.6.10 is able to > parse the normal BIOS' PIRQ table by booting linux > with acpi=off? no, the problem is that the BIOSes we have seen in some cases just assign a bunch of IRQs, and ignore their own tables. Hence, the problem gets harder. > I'm still somewhat confused though. At the point that > LB calls the kernel, shoudn't LB have used the IRQ > table values to set the PCI config space registers to > write IRQ values to the PCI config registers and such? no, we have always let Linux do this because: - for a given version of linux, you really don't know what tables it will use, so it makes no sense to do a lot of work and then have linux repeat it - there are multiple options in some cases for which IRQ to use, and again, you want to let the OS figure that out ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
