Re: fxp0: device timeout on Strato root server

["Ferdinand Hoffmann" <spNaNT_(_at_)_web_(_dot_)_de>]

> Good question, could be that linux uses a different IRQ routing
> or chipset driver, or maybe it is not the IRQ.
> If I remember the dmesg correctly the card was initialized okay,
> so something must be "fishy" there.
> Had similar problems in my workstation, there it was the APIC.
> Drivers loaded all fine, just not a single packet in and out.
> Openbsd worked fine, Linux finally at kernel 2.6.x complained
> about a BIOS bug in the IRQ routing and fixed it before that I
> had to disable the APIC in the bios to get the card working...

they use different IRQs under linux (SuSE 9.1 Pro):

e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xe2200000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:30:48:52:C1:EE
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xe2201000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:30:48:52:C1:EF
(the MAC is slightly different...)

the full dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.5-7.95-default (geeko_(_at_)_buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Thu Jul 1 15:23:45 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
501MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR                                    ) @ 0x000f6940
ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: local apic disabled
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=305 resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent desktop console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
CKRM Initialization
...... Initializing ClassType<taskclass> ........
...... Initializing ClassType<socket_class> ........
CKRM Initialization done
Detected 2400.038 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 515000k/524224k available (1963k kernel code, 8468k reserved, 688k data, 216k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 4734.97 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU:     After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU:     After all inits, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU#0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd!
Freeing initrd memory: 1125k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb360, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe1000000, mapped to 0xe0807000, size 8128k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4a2e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Initial HugeTLB pages allocated: 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
...no good signature found.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Using anticipatory io scheduler
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 5
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: ExcelStor Technology J360, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda2
Resuming from device hda2
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S4bios S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
Adding 514072k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:42 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm_(_at_)_uk_(_dot_)_sistina_(_dot_)_com
EXT2-fs warning (device hda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

subfs 0.9
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
hw_random: RNG not detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 4M @ 0xe3000000
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xe2200000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:30:48:52:C1:EE
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xe2201000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:30:48:52:C1:EF
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 2 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (23 C)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
BIOS EDD facility v0.13 2004-Mar-09, 1 devices found
eth0: no IPv6 routers present