On 25-Aug-99 at 18:54, Rui Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the last messages remind me of a question a had a while ago
> and never sorted out.
>
> >From what I understand from reading IO-APIC.txt the purpose of the
> kernel options pirq
> is to correct the mp table passed by the bios to the kernel.
> However they seem to do nothing other than printing some messages, the
> mp table
> is never modified...
Yeah. I eventually came to that conclusion when i was trying to make my system
work properly a little while ago. Actually more accurately I gave up trying to
understand after realizing it wasn't going to fix my problems anyway.
[...]
>
> 1.Setting a irq to xtpic mode (there was a patch that claimed to do this
> but it doesn't work)
This I don't know about...
> 2.Interchanging two ioapic interrupts (just out of curiosity).
but for this one, I posted a patch to the list a few days ago (subject was "new
patch: more working around buggy BIOSen.") which should be able to do this for
you - it allows you to override parts of the mp table on the kernel command
line. If you haven't got it tell me and I'll mail it to you to avoid clogging
the list with it again.
Cheers,
David
>
>
> Rui Sousa
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