From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ACPI :Modify timer override connection in Some NVIDIA systems
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:07:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47152811.7010103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710151832.59472.ak@suse.de>
On 10/15/2007 12:32 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 18:30:13 Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> On 10/12/2007 03:04 AM, Zhao Yakui wrote:
>>> Hi, All
>>> The BIOS of some systems using NVIDIA chipset gives the uncorrect
>>> timer override connection, which will cause that I/O APIC and timer
>>> can't be connected and kernel panic.
>>> There are two ways to fix this bug. One is to use the following patch and
>>> the other is to add a new boot option of acpi_force_timer_override.
>
> This is already fixed in the firstfloor tree.
>
Do I need something more than early-quirks-unification and nvidia-timer-quirk?
Because those two don't fix anything; I have to manually force
acpi_use_timer_override to get things to work right. The RFC patch seems to
be doing the right thing automatically.
Hardware: nVidia MCP51/C51 (with HPET)
Host Bridge PCI ID: 10de:02f0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 7:04 [RFC] [PATCH] ACPI :Modify timer override connection in Some NVIDIA systems Zhao Yakui
2007-10-15 16:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-15 16:32 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-16 21:07 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-10-16 21:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-16 21:57 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-16 22:17 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-17 9:00 ` Zhao Yakui
2007-10-17 9:58 ` Andi Kleen
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