On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:50:27PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 25-Nov-2003 Brooks Davis wrote: > > Since the interrupt changes, my dual Xeons based on the SE7500WV2 board > > don't work with ACPI. Specificly, the onboard nics (em0 and em1) > > appear to not be recieving interupts. Instead, they continiously get > > watchdog timeouts. In a stock current, this is an instant panic. With > > a minor fix to the watchdog function, the system sees to be more or less > > funcitonal other then not having a network. Disabling ACPI makes the > > nics work. I have updated the BIOS to the latest version[0]. > > > > I've included ACPI and non-ACPI dmesg output below. What else is needed > > to diagnose this problem? Any patches I should try? > > Since acpi0 failed to probe, ACPI isn't used to route interrupts. However, > the apic code expects ACPI to do that since it enumerated CPUs and I/O > APICs. You are just going to have to disable ACPI for now. > > > acpi0: <INTEL SWV20 > on motherboard > > ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._REG] > > (Node 0xc29b4660), > > AE_NOT_EXIST > > acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST > > device_probe_and_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 > > If you can get this fixed, then you can re-enable ACPI again.
What I can't figure out is why this is failing since acpi was at least partialy working before. For instance, soft power was definalty working. Doesn't that depend on acpi attaching? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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