Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:05 -0700 From: "Luoqi Chen" <lchen@briontech.com> To: "Don Bowman" <don@sandvine.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: multiple IOxAPIC on 4.7 with Intel P64H2 Message-ID: <AHEKICEOIHLOGINAFIINAEDICBAA.lchen@briontech.com> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702742145@mail.sandvine.com>
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> I have a multi-port PCI-X card that is causing > me some grief. > An older version of the system bios allowed this to > work correctly, and the on-board devices to work > correctly. > > the newer system bios has fixed a 'bug' where the > interrupts were routed incorrectly according to the > PCI bridge specification. > > The system vendor indicates that I am likely missing > the support for multiple IOxAPIC, in particular, > not supporting the ones in the P64H2 hub. I know > that FreeBSD is using the IOxAPIC in the ICH-3 correctly. > > Can someone suggestion if -stable supports this configuration? > I can't get to the point of running 'mptable' since > the system won't come up: i get IRQ timeouts on the scsi > device. > > I have a 2x XEON system with ICH-3, e7501, and P64H2. > It appears there are two IO APIC in the ICH-3, and two > in the P64H2. > > --don > We support multiple IO APICs in -stable. I have systems with a total of 7 IO APICs running happily under -stable. BTW, there should be only one IO APIC in a ICH3-S, and two for each P64H2. -lq
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