[tulip] Tulip and PowerPC endian issue?

Jim Rowe rowejames@acmsystems.com
Mon Feb 3 18:12:01 2003


On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 04:36, Donald Becker wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2003, Jim Rowe wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:31, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > Hmmm, we are still not seeing the status messages.  There should be
> > > messages for every interrupt and received packet.
> > > 
> > > Are you getting a non-zero interrupt count in /proc/interrupts?
> > 
> > I'm not getting any interrupts. The CardBus PC card is eth1, interrupt
> > 30:
> ...
> >  30:          0  IBM UIC Edge      Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II, Ricoh Co Ltd
> > RL5c476 II (#2), eth1
> 
> OK, this is a sure indication of a CardBus or APIC IRQ mapping bug.
> 
> While it could possibly be masking an additional problem with the
> driver (I doubt it), the primary problem is with the kernel's IRQ mapping.
> 
> The usual solution is to pass "noapic" to the kernel.  If that doesn't
> work, revert to an earlier kernel version.

Ok no luck with the 2.4.6 kernel. Any other suggestions on how to track
down the problem?

-- 
Jim Rowe
Advanced CounterMeasure Systems
Email: jrowe@acmsystems.com