From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 09:59:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B7116A4CE; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:59:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from barton.dreadbsd.org (massena-4-82-67-196-50.fbx.proxad.net [82.67.196.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0602543D41; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:59:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from antoine@massena-4-82-67-196-50.fbx.proxad.net) Received: from barton.dreadbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by barton.dreadbsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j399wGjH008935; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:58:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from antoine@massena-4-82-67-196-50.fbx.proxad.net) Received: (from antoine@localhost) by barton.dreadbsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j399vjrs008854; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:57:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from antoine) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:57:45 +0200 From: Antoine Brodin To: John Baldwin Message-Id: <20050409115745.31a0059c.antoine.brodin@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <200504081529.33026.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200504071607.47419.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050408141019.6cb045c1.antoine.brodin@laposte.net> <200504081529.33026.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.7 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: k-gleb@yandex.ru cc: dan.cojocar@gmail.com cc: nate@root.org Subject: Re: Interrupt storm X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:59:10 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > I think your other link devices are meant to be used in APIC mode (note their > names start with 'A') and thus I think they are aliases for the other link > devices. So when I turn off the alias, I turn off the non-APIC mode one as > well. Working BIOSen handle this by having the same link device change its > behavior (different _PRS return values) depending on the PIC mode. It's not > easy to determine if a link is just not used (for example, if no card is > plugged into a slot with a dedicated link) or if it's an alias. I think > having two ACPI devices alias to the same hardware is a bug in the BIOS > though. Perhaps your BIOS vendor can be convinced to fix this. Can you see > if Linux has the same problem btw? I've just sent a technical support request to ASUS. I'll let you know when they reply. Linux doesn't have the same problem: I tested with a knoppix live cd yesterday. dmesg: http://bsd.miki.eu.org/~antoine/knoppix36.dmesg , but it doesn't look very helpful. Cheers, Antoine