From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264632AbUEEM1N (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 08:27:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264635AbUEEM1N (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 08:27:13 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:9166 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264632AbUEEM1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 08:27:10 -0400 Subject: Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH] + [PATCH] for nmi_debug=1 + [PATCH] for idle=C1halt, 2.6.5 From: Ian Kumlien To: ross@datscreative.com.au Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Allen Martin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Jesse Allen , "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" , Craig Bradney , christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de, "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Jamie Lokier , Daniel Drake In-Reply-To: <200405052214.38855.ross@datscreative.com.au> References: <200405040111.01514.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <200405052214.38855.ross@datscreative.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-/q+Z1YUQ+fHK8G5P2Tzp" Message-Id: <1083760029.2797.33.camel@big> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:27:09 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-/q+Z1YUQ+fHK8G5P2Tzp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:14, Ross Dickson wrote: > To my knowledge the only thing left to sort out for the normal kernel > distro is what to do about the timer_ack issue in check_timer(). >=20 > We need it off for nforce2 to get nmi_watchdog=3D1 working with ioapic > 8254 timer pin0 timer override patch routing. I vote to revisit Maciej's > patch that was dropped by Linus after appearing in 2.6.3-mm3.=20 > For those with problems of clock skew with the timer into pin0 routing,=20 > that patch gave a virtual wire timer routing which worked well for those > users. Whats the real difference between nmi_watchdog?1 and =3D2? Since nmi_watchdog=3D2 works here: NMI: 9884 LOC: 80297310 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Also, wouldn't it be better to not depend on bioses and bios versions atm, ie hardcode pin0 since Allen Martin stated that it's hardwired on pin0? ie, just: if(pin2 && nforce2_chip) { printk("ALERT: Known defect in bios, mail your manufacturer. Using pin0\n"); } Since this whole problem is pissing me off... It would be much better if one had some kind of access to the information from nvidia so you can just point at it, telling the mb-manuf. that they are morons and go fix =3D). (Did i mention that i have had this problem for quite some time and would have gone postal if it wasn't for Ross Dicksons fixes =3D)) --=20 Ian Kumlien -- http://pomac.netswarm.net --=-/q+Z1YUQ+fHK8G5P2Tzp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAmN2c7F3Euyc51N8RAjq6AKCiFA+FxxIc9tiuCuaB9qNS/uKDSgCeLI2W N1iwQRJeVzX6eDHq+TSVcBQ= =QP8r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/q+Z1YUQ+fHK8G5P2Tzp--