From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: + acpi-keep-track-of-timer-broadcasting-fix.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:31:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20070130203118.GC1246@elte.hu> References: <200701282247.l0SMl3rG005194@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200701282153.29132.lenb@kernel.org> <20070129065540.GB23785@elte.hu> <200701291855.36352.lenb@kernel.org> <1170115975.29240.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:43117 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385AbXA3Ueo (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:34:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1170115975.29240.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Len Brown , akpm@osdl.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, johnstul@us.ibm.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, asit.k.mallick@intel.com, Arjan van de Ven * Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 18:55 -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > My understanding is that > > 1. All existing and future Intel systems have a FUNCTIONAL LAPIC timer in C2. > > 2. All existing Intel systems have a BROKEN LAPIC timer in C3. > > > > If you've found a system that defies these rules, then I'm extremely > > interested to know about it. > > Ask akpm. His vaio has this problem since ages. As well as other Intel > based boxen. Yes, they have broken BIOSes .... my HP nx9030 is one such box too. [ I sent the BIOS info - Len, did you get those? ] Ingo