[tulip] Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX

[Erik Heinz]

Hi Donald and others,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:52:18PM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:

> > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Ron Reed wrote:
> > >
> > >>Has anyone gotten the ANA-6944A/TX multiport ethernet card to work with
> > >>RedHat 7.1? The kernel is 2.4.3-6.

> With 2.2 and before, on x86 only, the driver itself hacks the IRQ
> mapping to work around the common BIOS IRQ mapping bug where PCI chips
> behind a bus bridge are assigned different IRQs, but the 4 port card is
> interrupting only on INTA, a single IRQ line.
> 
> With 2.4 the PCI subsystem controls the IRQ mapping, and fixes up this
> common x86 bug.  You can tell that this case has the fix-up implemented
> because IRQ is the same on all interfaces. 

This obviously does not work with the Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX or similar
cards. The problem has been discussed on this list several times but
I have seen no solution yet.

I would like to know what can be done to solve the problem.
Is anyone working on it yet?


Thank you,
Erik

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