From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964910AbWCAKkG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:40:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964909AbWCAKkG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:40:06 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:9125 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964910AbWCAKkF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:40:05 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 References: <200602281905_MC3-1-B97E-7FDC@compuserve.com> <20060228161512.0cdbe560.akpm@osdl.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 01 Mar 2006 11:40:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20060228161512.0cdbe560.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote: > > > > This fixes the "timer runs too fast" bug on ATI chipsets (bugzilla #3927). > > Wonderful, thanks. What's the relationship (if any) between this and the > recently-merged x86_64 fix? He just ported the x86-64 change over without any original authorship attribution :/ And some less functionality (only works for ACPI now) and some totally unrelated Documentation cleanup and a few random printk changes. The ACPI only thing is probably mostly ok because the timing won't work at least on the dual cores without ACPI anyways because PMtimer is needed. On single cores it would be useful even without ACPI (for that earlyquirk.c just would need to be moved up to run independently of ACPI) Still it's probably a good idea for 2.6.16. -Andi