From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Subject: Re: ACPI on Compaq 6715b - BIOS from the wrong end of the planet Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:30:39 +0100 Message-ID: <48182E2F.4080000@gmail.com> References: <48144209.7080203@gmail.com> <1209476717.1784.853.camel@queen.suse.de> <4817457C.6000103@gmail.com> <1209493771.1784.892.camel@queen.suse.de> <4817B0E1.7080102@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:6508 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757297AbYD3Iax (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:30:53 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so192229nfc.21 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:30:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4817B0E1.7080102@zytor.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: trenn@suse.de, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Langsdorf, Mark" , andreas.herrmann3@amd.com H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Thomas Renninger wrote: >>>> >>> Thanks a Million.. >>> noapictimer works perfectly ... BUT .. only on 64Bit. acpi_pm is >>> not present on 32bit as a clocksource and it defaulted to jiffies. >>> (tsc was marked as imreliable) >>> >>> I am really surprised that this Sempron notebook actually had 64Bit >>> CPU compatibility :D >> >> This one helps for my Turion. >> AFAIK, another Turion (very similar) does not need this, but I do not >> know for sure. >> > > Is the common denominator here the Turion (and if so, what model > number), or is it the mainboard or BIOS? If the latter, it should be > keyed on a DMI signature instead of the CPU. > > -hpa > I have all the grief on a Sempron/ATI system model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3600+ If I specify nolapic,noapic or acpi=noirq on kernel boot, the machine goes in to VERY slow motion (5 minutes to boot!) the noapictimer option was the magic keyword in my case and I am going to dig in to the code to see what things this setting fudges with :-) Best Regards Richard