ASUS P5A broken by ACPI black-list

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:54 am, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
> > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:57:30 -0400
> >
> > On Monday 04 October 2004 02:33 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > It looks like interrupts from the Ethernet are not delivered without
> > > > ACPI, but that is hardly your problem. I have over-ridden the
> > > > black-list and things are back to normal.
> > >
> > > The reason this system works in Windows without ACPI is that irq
> > > routing in Windows uses multiple info sources including _PIR and $PIR. 
> > > John Baldwin has patches to do this for us too.
> >
> > $PIR routing already works on FreeBSD and has worked for quite a while. 
> > The patches I have are to make the acpi_pci_link code work more like the
> > $PIR code already does.  It doesn't change the ACPI code to actually use
> > $PIR or the MPTable though.  I can try to look at why the ethernet device
> > doesn't get interrupts correctly if you can provide verbose ACPI and
> > non-ACPI dmesgs to look at.
>
> I am attaching the files. I do see some oddities with the
> interrupts that I had not previously noted, but they seen to be linked to
> sound, not the Ethernet. And, for whatever it's worth, "vmstat -i" does
> not show my sound card, at all. dmesg indicates it should be on IRQ 6.
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq0: clk                        4242251         99
> irq1: atkbd0                           3          0
> irq7: ppc0                             1          0
> irq8: rtc                        5430044        127
> irq10: xl0                         13699          0
> irq13: npx0                            1          0
> irq14: ata0                       166980          3
> irq15: ata1                          136          0
> Total                            9853115        232

First, do you have a floppy drive?  IRQ 6 should be used for your floppy drive 
if so.  Note that $PIR says that IRQ 6 is not an option for your link devices 
but ACPI does.  In the non-APCI case we use IRQ 10 for both xl0 and pcm0.  
Are you saying that in that case pcm0 works but xl0 does not?

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