Re: [9fans] 9atom.iso

[Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>]

I don't see neither /dev/mpirq nor /dev/nompirq.

Thanks,
    Lucho

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:43 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> On Mon Oct  5 13:38:51 EDT 2009, lucho@ionkov.net wrote:
>> Boots fine from the CD and installs on a Shuttle X27. When booting
>> from the hard disk, I get a lot of
>>
>>     ide: caught missed irq
>>
>> and no working system. It hangs somewhere after
>>
>>     version... time...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Lucho
>
> it's not hung, it's just really really sloooow.  caught missed
> irq means that it's trying to forge ahead even though
> the ide irq has been somehow misrouted.  my ide driver
> tries to do its best in these cases, since this is a very common
> problem.
>
>  do you have a recognized southbridge?  there should
> be a dev file /dev/mpirq (or nompirq if mp irqs are off)
> that describes the mp table.  sometimes you'll see that there
> are two mappings from bus irq to processor irq that are
> the same except for the i/o apic output pin.  without the
> routing tables, you don't know which one is correct.
>
> it would be nice to be able to override irqs in plan9.ini.
>
> - erik
>
>