转发: 答复: How to set irq_tables.c if apci-to-pci bridge needed

David Xiong xw at chinahost.com
Mon Oct 28 06:18:00 CET 2002


When I boot  Red Hat 7.2 with the normal BIOS of the Elite P6VEM3 mother board, the BIOS will set the irqs into the multimedia card 
and the card can work.  I think the BIOS has no knowledge about the PCI-PCI bridge specs.

When I boot from linuxbios, if I don't set the irq_tables.c ,  nobody will set the irqs into the multimedia card.  I will get the message:
   No IRQ Known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq

So I  added  that two lines into irq_tables.c blindly. And it works on Elite K7SEM.   Now I want to use  Elite P6VEM3, this time it 
does not  work.  The chipset of K7SEM is SiS730 and one of P6VEM3 is SiS630E.  Is there some diffrent between the two southbridge
of them?  

Will  working on the  irq_tables.c  solve the problem or I am on the wrong way ? Can you tell me what shall I do?

Thanks for your help.
David Xiong







-----原始邮件-----
发件人: ollie lho [mailto:ollie at sis.com.tw]
发送时间: 2002年10月28日 17:35
收件人: David Xiong
抄送: 'David Xiong'; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
主题: Re: 答复: How to set irq_tables.c if apci-to-pci bridge needed


On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:14, David Xiong wrote:
> >Did you recalculate the checksum ??
> Yes,  the checksum has been recalculated. 
> 
> >Where did you get the idea to set the the table like this?
> I do not know how the irqs routed. So I guess I can set  the irq table.  It is intresting that  this way work on Elite K7SEM. 
> So I take it for granted it will work on the new mother board.  Am I wrong? Sorry for  newbie questions like this.
>  
> >Do you have any documentation about your bridge ?? How did you know if your bridge
> >does not re-route IRQs in some other ways ??
> I do not have any documentation. Can you tell me where can I start?
> 

The way a PCI-PCI bridge should route the IRQs behind is defined in the
PCI-PCI bridge spec. For you case, it IRQs are re-routed twice, one is
by the bridge, the other is the southbridge IRQ router.

Ollie




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