Re: [Trion-kernel-dev] Compatibility patch

[Stephen M. W. <ste...@br...>]

On 04/05/06 13:15, Daniel Raffler wrote:
> > It's a real IOAPIC all right.  The mobo is a GA-K8VM800M (VIA chipset for
> > socket 754).  I suspect Gigabyte misinterpreted the IOAPIC specs, since
> > they say the correct value is 11h which they may have though was in
> > binary.
>
> As the I/O APIC is part of the chipset's south-bridge it's actually VIA
> rather than Gigabyte that is to be blamed for the bug. In any case your
> assumption does make some sense in my opinion, although I frankly wouldn't
> have expected a global player like VIA to make such blunders.

True.  I have a VIA chipset in another computer (not at hand at the moment) 
that does not report anything unusual.  Since noone seems to do much with the 
IO-APIC version number I don't suppose it really makes any difference.

> > Note that the LAPIC address here is different that the one you
> > detected.
>
> Actually the trion kernel doesn't even print the local APIC address, what
> you posted is the location of the multiprocessor configuration table..

My mistake.  I was so excitied about creating a bootable Trion CD I didn't 
bother checking the code tee see what I was actually writing down.  Some of 
my test systems do not have floppies.

-- 
Stephen M. Webb
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