Hey, send me over a dmesg+mptable output, your problem may be something
else.
--
coleman
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:03:20PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > I believe it has something to do with the APIC on this board. I have a
> > production Dual PIII VIA server running 4.2 to compare to and I noticed a
> > few things:
> > 1) This Dual Athlon machine is still routing 16 INT's in ICU-fashion
> > 2) The ExtINT pin on the PIII system, in local INTs, is routed via a
> > PCI bus, but the Athlon System routs this via the ISA bus. I think
> > this is wrong.
> > 3) Furthermore, all INTs are routed in ISA-fashion and the Bus in mptable
> > is ISA (except NMI). There are no PCI routing pins listed at all (A-D).
> > 4) The 5.0-CURRENT dmesg/mptable dump from the GUINNESS reference board
> > also displays this behavior, which makes me think that it perhaps doesn't
> > completely work, a bridged PCI card like my DFE-570TX might be worth a try.
> >
> > Ideally, from what I can see, PCI devices that are attached via
> > IntA,B,C,D,etc.. and handled by the I/O APIC instead of the 8259's should
> > be running off irq's > 15. They should also have PCI bus attachments for
> > INTs listed in mptable. This is probably worth looking into, I grazed over
> > the MP 1.4 spec, as well as some AMD tech docs. It would appear that for
> > some reason, the INT is routed, but the OS doesn't set up the APIC properly,
> > or maybe this is expected to be the job of the BIOS... Either way, it
> > seems as if the Dual Athlon boards (at least ones I've seen) do not fully
> > work yet.
> >
> Even with all that said, my Dual Proc PII 333, based on an intel mobo,
> does not work right with FreeBSD 4.5, and broke in between 4.4 and 4.5. It
> works but does not support the dual channel card. I don't know what caused
> this but I do know this is the behavior I'm seeing. :-)
>
> Ken
>
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