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Powering up RIO RTA's after Linux Redhat 7.1 has automatically loaded RIO module causes a kernel Oops.

Issue ID: SCRIO0003
Date: June 18, 2002


The information in this article applies to:
  • RIO driver for Linux-2.4.2 which is distributed with Redhat 7.1.

SYMPTOMS

If the RIO module was loaded automatically using our scipts (rio.rh) and the RTA was powered on later, the user would get a kernel Oops, with the error "Interrupts not syncing- stopping interrupt handler".

RESOLUTION

Engineering has recognised the problem and has provided the following upgrade to resolve this particular issue. To update the RIO driver for linux-2.4.2 kernel follow the procedure in the readme.txt file.

New Linux RIO Driver files for kernel linux-2.4.2:
riocmd.c
generic_serial.c
readme.txt