Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread John R Lenton
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, for

RE: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: AFAIK, the option to compile w/o APIC is only for UP systems. If you :: want to use both of your processors, you have to compile in APIC :: support, but just disable it when loading the kernel (ie. for lilo, :: 'append="noapic"') I haven't seen the beginning of the APIC/VIA/Tyan thread, but i

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Pete Toscano
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote: > Greg, > > :: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the > :: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work > :: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC > :: mode. I was

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread idalton
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm tol

RE: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
Greg, :: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the :: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work :: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC :: mode. I was going to run some crude benchmarks on the box with and :

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Pete Toscano wrote: > > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, for that matter are there any SMP boards th

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, f

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Pete Toscano
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB runn

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm tol

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Helge Hafting
Pete Toscano wrote: > > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it'

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-12 Thread Pete Toscano
Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for a while now. I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it's a problem with the PCI IRQ ro