Re: Interrupt routing and friends ...

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Petr Janda schrieb:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:01:00 Hasso Tepper wrote:
> > But the question I wanted to ask ... I know several persons who agreed to
> > participate in setting up a bounty (including me) to bring modern
> > interrupt routing into DragonFly, but my impression so far is that
> > regardless of existance (or amount ;) of bounty there is no person
> > willing to take this task. Am I correct or ... ?
> >
> > This really needs to be solved, so, please speak up if you have something
> > constructive to say :).
>
> Id also be willing to contribute money-wise(not a whole lot but I could surely 
> scrape up some dollars) along with other people. In my opinion the goal for 
> 2.2 should be 1) Modern interrupt routing 2) Modern APIC so that our SMP 
> implementation simply works on the new hardware..Ive got a laptop that simply 
> will not boot on an SMP kernel because our implementation doesn't read the 
> ACPI apic table which is required for the laptop as the BIOS wont tell.

I'd throw in some money as well ($100) for one of the two tasks, as I 
can't use the centrino dual-core on my laptop (and sound doesn't work on 
this other AMD box I have due to interrupt storms). I'd prefer to have 
AMD64 working (with modern interrupt routing) of course.

Regards,

  Michael