Re: New test boxes - update

[David Xu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I spent a day today working on getting my new AMD X2 (dual core cpu)
>     based Shuttle XPC boxes working.
>
>     Interrupt routing in APIC mode (SMP turned on) is a complete mess...
>     virtually nothing works.  The hard drive on ata0 works, but ata1,
>     usb, firewire, and network interrupts do not get properly routed.  I
>     was able to get the on-board network working by adding polling support
>     to IF_NV (and as a bonus I got it to negotiate at GigE speeds now too).
>     SMP itself does work, however, so I am confident that it is simply an
>     interrupt routing issue.
>
>     I'm probably going to need Joerg's help to get the interrupts routed. 
>     I will start diagnosing the issue tomorrow.  All I can say right now
>     is that it is seriously confused.
>
> 						-Matt


Is this NForce based ? if so, I'd say good luck to you, why do you want
to buy a closed source machine?  I have already regreted buying one
Nforced based MB. ;-)

David Xu