Re: 2.6.0test4 ACPI with nForce2 success

[Alistair J Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Monday 25 August 2003 19:00, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> I have been one of these people who have been having to boot with
> pci=noacpi to get up with much of my hardware initialized.  My system is
> now working without it.  It isn't getting shutoff on irq storms or
> anything.

Likewise, my EPoX 8RDA+ board is working 100% perfectly since the nforce2-apic 
fixes were merged in -mm. No spurious interrupts, no weird ACPI glitches, 
everything from power management to PCI IRQ routing is just fine.

I'm still not sure I understand the local apic lockups experienced by others, 
but anybody considering the purchase of an nForce 2 board can probably put 
their mind to rest.

>
> My only possible problem is this:
>
>  13:59:40  up 8 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.86, 0.81, 0.36
>            CPU0
>   0:     516847          XT-PIC  timer

With the 1000Hz timer in linux 2.6, I'd guess your PC had been up for 
516847/1000/60 = 8.61 minutes.. Oh, look!

>
> I am not sure how fast the irq's for the timer should be going up.  So,
> that may be an issue.
>

Evidently not.

Cheers,
Alistair.