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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 ACPI: Blacklist two HP machines with buggy BIOSes (Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:23:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223454202.1378.38.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzbpmocm.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:59 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The real reason is actually a workaround in the BIOS for problems
> in the older Linux code that caused duplicated timer interrupts.

That really made me blink - so instead of fixing Linux they fudged their
BIOS?

*utter amazement*


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-08  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-05 18:36 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-05 18:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-05 19:06   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-05 19:19     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-05 19:27       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 21:18       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-05 21:40         ` Parag Warudkar
2008-10-05 22:29         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-06  6:23           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-06  9:59             ` [PATCH] x86 ACPI: Blacklist two HP machines with buggy BIOSes (Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions) Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-06 14:54               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-06 15:00                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06 17:17                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-06 17:51                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-10-06 17:54                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06 20:59                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-06 21:39                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-10-06 22:11                         ` [PATCH] x86: SB450: skip IRQ0 override if it is not routed to INT2 of IOAPIC Andreas Herrmann
2008-10-07  3:41                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-07  3:51                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-07  4:57                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-07 11:19                                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-07 15:25                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-10-07 20:31                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-06 23:10                         ` [PATCH] x86 ACPI: Blacklist two HP machines with buggy BIOSes (Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions) Andi Kleen
2008-10-07  1:35                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-10-07  4:42                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-07  5:38                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 11:45                               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-07 12:04                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-08  8:23                       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-10-06 17:15                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-06 17:54                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-10-05 19:10 ` 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06  6:28   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-06 19:53     ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-10-07  3:42       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-07  9:10         ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-10-07 11:37           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-07 12:07             ` Parag Warudkar
2008-10-08  1:07               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-07 13:19             ` Andreas Herrmann

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