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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ipconfig DHCP problems
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:13:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37bccea9de303e405b8bf4edb5acf98b@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikNw_o3gMamKiPLaTzOO0wfEv5F6Z9nXH-mrUkK@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat Jul 10 00:04:14 EDT 2010, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> When you start having interrupt problems, and they are fixed by nomp,
> it's a good bet the motherboard has a bad MP table. Many, many boards
> have tables that are quite broken. Vendors frequently change IRQ
> hardware structure and the general rule is ACPI will likely be right,
> because Windows wants it to be; PIRQ will likely be right; but for
> some reason, _MP_ is many times quite wrong.

given an ioapic, the mp table just doesn't have enough information
to uniquely determine vector mappings.  unfortunately this problem was
never solved.  (vendor's answer: use acpi instead.)  this is a leading
cause of "broken" mp tables.  another leading cause is forgetting to
delete entries for hardware that bios has configured off.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-10 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 22:28 Akshat Kumar
2010-07-09 22:29 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-07-10  0:39   ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-09 23:16 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-07-10  0:43   ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-10  4:02     ` ron minnich
2010-07-10 11:13       ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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