[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] make vs. make checkpir

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Apr 12 20:16:28 CEST 2007


* Corey Osgood <corey_osgood at verizon.net> [070412 05:19]:
> Can someone run some tests on getpir and checkpir? Last time I ran it,
> about a week ago on the jetway j7f2we1g, getpir came up with a different
> checksum than checkpir did. 

This means the pirq table is broken.

> Also, am I correct in the understanding that if Linux boots with
> acpi=off and acpi disabled in the BIOS, that getpir should produce a
> usable irq_tables.c?

Not necessarily. There's also the mptable for interrupts and the bios
might just set up interrupts in the hardware without producing a correct
table at all.

Usually mptable handles your interrupts and pirq table handles your
peer busses, iirc. It's really broken stuff. In the BIOS and in Linux.

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