Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: > I can also report, that updating the BIOS to version 0609 (released > last week or so, also adds the long-missing HPET support) also makes > the problem go away since the first testcase then already works. > I'm currently running with the BIOS downgraded to version 0402.

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Tobias Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >> Your dmesg is kind of interesting: > >> > >> ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 enabled(7)APIC error on > >> CPU0: > > 04(40) > >> .. failed > >> > >> where that APIC error o

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Tobias Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Your dmesg is kind of interesting: >> >> ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 enabled(7)APIC error on CPU0: > 04(40) >> .. failed >> >> where that APIC error on CPU0 seems to be a "Send accept error" and "Send >

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Your dmesg is kind of interesting: > > ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 enabled(7)APIC error on CPU0: > 04(40) > .. failed > > where that APIC error on CPU0 seems to be a "Send accept error" and "Send > illegal vector" thing. I think we actually got the i

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > With commit b0268726 backed out, 2.6.20-rc1 boots fine. Ok. It's sad, because that thing really did clean stuff up, and seemed like a nice and robust approach. Your dmesg is kind of interesting: ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 ena

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > 2.6.20-rc1 won't boot with the error message "IO-APIC + timer > doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter". > However, IO-APIC seems to work just fine with 2.6.19-rc6 and I'd > rather like to continue using it. :) Can you try "git bise