On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:31:19PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > ron minnich wrote: > > Factory bioses frequently ship with broken IRQ tables. The 'hlt' > > problem is a classic 'clock interrupts are not working' symptom. This > > is good (it's basic) and bad (it can be a bear to debug). > > > > how do vendors get around their own broken tables in the fuctory bios? > > It appears they ignore them and just jam the correct bits into > > correct places. sad, but true. We see it all the time. > Vendors also ship with ACPI. As soon as Linux detects a reasonably > complete ACPI implementation, it will not even look at IRQ tables anymore.
I'm curious, can we make the same assumptions for other payloads/OSes? Windows, *BSD, Solaris, Plan 9, OS/2 (yuck), DOS, OFW(?), whatever... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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