Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:11:51 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 3128] Re: CSA gigabit ethernet Message-ID: <20040322181048.T35931@root.org> In-Reply-To: <405E8793.90703@he.iki.fi> References: <405C5119.5000505@he.iki.fi> <20040320165935.D24978@root.org> <405E8793.90703@he.iki.fi>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > >Sorry, I can't quite understand what the problem is. What are CSAB and > >CSAD? Is CSAB another bus (PCI?) containing CSAD? A devinfo of this bo= x > >would help me understand the hierarchy. > > CSA is a proprietary bus connected to the MCH. > http://www.intel.com/design/network/events/idf/csa.htm > > It=B4s primary purpose at this time is to provide bandwidth to run a GE > without having to go through the other busses. > > >You can always create your own _PRT entry under CSAB and compile a custo= m > >AML. See the acpi debugging section of the handbook for info. > > I got a new BIOS from supermicro where the _PRT entry exists, it=B4s loca= ted > at http://helenius.fi/p4sctnew.asl but now I get no error messages but > the system still does not work. (vmstat -i shows no interrupts for em0) > Previously I got watchdog timeout errors. Great, I'm glad they fixed the ASL in the BIOS update. I checked the ASL and your gigE should probably show up on irq 18, right? Whether it gets interrupts or not is probably a device driver or APIC routing issue. Unfortunately, I can't help you more on those. -Nate
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