[LinuxBIOS] MB1030 / 3036 VGA problems with IRQs

[Christian Sühs]

Stefan Reinauer schrieb:
> * Christian Sühs <chris at suehsi.de> [060516 14:39]:
> 
>>I have created my own irq_tables.c file with getpir.
> 
>  
> pirq tables of factory bios are very often incomplete or wrong.
> One reason is that pirq and mptable are not used by the OS 
> when ACPI is active. (Well, talking Linux) So this is an untested 
> (and usually unused) path. 

ACPI is not enabled in the kernel.
What about the bios parameters? There is a switch to enable/disable for 
pnp os intalled. Eventually there are differences if I run getpir in 
both cases? Or should I set the IRQs manually in the bios before I run 
getpir.


>  
> USB should get an IRQ, audio as well, probably. Don't think you need one
> for VGA? What does your factory bios say?

All devices gets an IRQ.

> 
> Nope. you have to write support in form of mptable, pirq or ACPI to get
> this working.
>