Roland Tollenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >>> Anyway. Compile your kernel to enable APIC and especially APIC-IO > >> support. > >>> (make menuconfig --> processor type&features --> local APIC for > >> uniprocessor --> APIC-IO support) > >> Thanks, this is the info I was lacking. > >> > >> > >>> I hope you have an APIC chip on your board. > >> How can I check before going to the effort of recompiling the kernel? > >> > >> Would anyone know why the APIC is not set on as default in the kernel? > >> Does it conflict if the board does NOT have an APIC? > > > I faced the same problem here. Only solution for me was to use a > different machine, because the one I was trying first had only two PCI slots > available and I tried to use an ethernet and and cardbus card with Xenomai at > the same time. The result was that only one worked due to IRQ conflicts, the > machine freezed when I used both. Now with machine no 2 it works, as long > as I disable USB controller. > This is what I am afraid of when I go to other machines in the future. > Its not always easy buying a machine (in our case we will be > implementing this many times over time) and having to run to a vendor > try the machine, send it back etc. Since the machines must be installed > in machine panels we would like compact machines with no more than 2 PCi > slots. I therefore hope the APIC method presents a possible solution. > > Roland
I think it's the best to keep it as simple as possible. If necessary, try to use APIC. But in your case, with the need of many simple machines, I would try to contact some mainboard vendors and get some information which machines would work without that APIC workaround. Once found a working one buy those and everything should be fine! By the way, I would try to flash the most recently bios for your machine. Maybe this fixes the issue that xenomai doesn't care about assigned IRQs in the bios (because this may be a bios bug). Karl -- von Karl Reichert GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
