Re: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, John William wrote: > If shared, edge triggered interrupts are ok then I will talk to the driver > maintainers about the problem. If this isn't ok, then maybe the sanity check > in pci-irq.c would be to force level triggering only on shared PCI > interrupts? DEFINITELY

Re: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-11 Thread Alan Cox
> maintainers about the problem. If this isn't ok, then maybe the sanity check > in pci-irq.c would be to force level triggering only on shared PCI > interrupts? This seems a sensible path to take for such machines > I'm going down this path because I can't see a good way to check for the > p

Re: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-11 Thread John William
>From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > So PCI interrupts must always be level triggered? If so, then the kernel > > should never program the IO APIC to use an edge triggered interrupt on a >PCI > > device. If that's true, then why not force the interrupt type to level > > triggered for all PCI

Re: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-11 Thread Alan Cox
> So PCI interrupts must always be level triggered? If so, then the kernel > should never program the IO APIC to use an edge triggered interrupt on a PCI > device. If that's true, then why not force the interrupt type to level > triggered for all PCI devices (to work around a potentially broken

RE: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-10 Thread John William
>From: "Dunlap, Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -Original Message- > > From: John William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > If PCI interrupts are shared, force them to be level > > triggered? Can shared > > PCI interrupts be edge triggered? If not, then wouldn't this > > be the correct > >

RE: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-10 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> -Original Message- > From: John William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I'm having a problem with kernel 2.4.2-SMP on my HP Vectra XU > 5/90. This is an old dual-pentium (Neptune chipset) machine. > ... > > OR > > If PCI interrupts are shared, force them to be level > triggered? Ca