From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:09:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c16a21a4dd6918c3b6cbb17660b7b8a@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10802232131p5b05b52auf1168fcfc5ab5c7e@mail.gmail.com>
>> i feel your pain. i have a new motherboard with some bad entries in the mp
>> table, too.
>
> Not surprising. What we see, all the time, is that the mobo makers
> just barely understand these tables, and usually get them quite wrong.
> We've also seen cases where the MP table for one board was used,
> verbatim, on a very different board. Finally, the vendors are always
> willing to rewire bits of the board, but don't quite get around to
> updating the table.
>
> Short form: PC hardware is crap.
i'm not casting aspersions. i've had good luck with getting corrected
bios in the few times i've had trouble on server motherboards. i
think the problem is that mp interrupts are hard and need to be
constructed at bios runtime to account for the topology of add in
cards and bridges.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 2:19 cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 2:58 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 4:22 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 4:29 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 5:31 ` ron minnich
2008-02-24 5:41 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:05 ` [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24 6:16 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24 6:54 ` lucio
2008-02-24 12:52 ` david jeannot
2008-02-24 16:48 ` lucio
2008-02-24 16:56 ` lucio
2008-02-24 21:31 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-02-24 15:09 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-02-24 21:36 ` [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 21:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 23:03 ` cinap_lenrek
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