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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org,
	jeff@garzik.org, cw@f00f.org, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harmon@ksu.edu,
	len.brown@intel.com, vsu@altlinux.ru, liste@jordet.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:40:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157913647.5076.174.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060910002112.GA20672@kroah.com>

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:21 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 01:31:12AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > VIA have always told me that "ACPI handles this" and we don't need
> > quirks. Various chips have different IRQ routing logic and it's all a
> > bit weird if we don't use ACPI and/or BIOS routing.
> 
> So why isn't acpi handling all of this for us?  Do people not want to
> use acpi for some reason?

Some applications such as realtime audio and probably gaming require
ACPI to be disabled, as it causes horrible latency problems.  This
applies equally to Linux and Windows.

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-10 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-07 22:33 [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change Daniel Drake
2006-09-09 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 14:44   ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-09 16:03     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 21:34       ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-10  0:31         ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10  0:21           ` Greg KH
2006-09-10  0:39             ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-10  4:37               ` Greg KH
2006-09-10  9:48                 ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-10 15:48             ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-10 18:40             ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-09-10 20:45               ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-10 21:30                 ` Lee Revell
2006-09-10 21:34                   ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-19 20:04                 ` Lee Revell
2006-09-19 20:12                   ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-19 20:28                     ` Lee Revell
2006-09-10 16:01           ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-10 16:39             ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 16:44               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-10 19:06               ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-10 19:41                 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 19:21                   ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-11 15:33                     ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-11 20:16                       ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-11 21:23                         ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-11 21:38                           ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-12 12:37                             ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-12 21:38                               ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-13  0:48                                 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-11 21:54                         ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-12  6:21                           ` Stian Jordet
2006-09-11 21:44                       ` Daniel Drake

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