Gianluca Guida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Gianluca,
> My laptop's motherboard set its RTL8139 NIC IRQ at a value that is not > included in the range 0<=x<16 and it's not 255. That is weird. I always thought that for compatibility reasons IRQs are always <16. In case the OS supports more than 16 IRQs, the OS can change the IRQs to prevent shared IRQs. With your NIC this is not the case, is this a BIOS bug or a setting in the BIOS you can change? Ignoring this device until there is a better solution is certainly the best thing to do, as I see it. > GNU Mach can't handle that, and when I try a 'devprobe eth0' I get a > panic due to a failed assert (irq < 16). This patch tell GNU Mach to > ignore this kind of IRQ. > > The real solution for this problem would be an PCI IRQ Router, which > is what I am going to port/implement in Mach soon. For now, this patch > helps by both removing the failed assert and by noticing the user that > the device is not being used for unassigned IRQ. Nice! > I guess that for such a small path using Savannah's Patch system is a > waste, right? You can put it there if it is not applied soon. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
