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From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EHCI + APIC errors = no usb goodness
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:10:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060125031049.GE8867@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601240722.21108.ak@suse.de>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:22:20AM +0100, Andi Kleen took 33 lines to write:
> 
> That was the laptop with ATI chipset right? Most of them have routing
> troubles with the timer interrupt. I finally gave up trying to fix
> them and just switched over to using the APIC timer which is run
> by the CPU and not dependent on chipsets. Use the latest
> patch from my x86-64 queue ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/
> 
> This should both eliminate the APIC errors and likely any timing problems
> for 64bit kernels.

I can confirm these two paragraphs. Andi's patche(s) worked for me on
2.6.16-rc1.

> Ah, 32bit? For that just run without APIC.

Kurt
-- 
A billion here, a couple of billion there -- first thing you know it
adds up to be real money.
		-- Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-23 21:04 EHCI + APIC errors = no usb goodness Greg KH
2006-01-23 21:25 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-23 21:41   ` Greg KH
2006-01-23 21:50     ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-23 21:56       ` Greg KH
2006-01-23 22:01     ` Greg KH
2006-01-23 23:53 ` David Brownell
2006-01-24  6:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-25  3:10   ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2006-01-25  4:43   ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-23 22:16 Brown, Len

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