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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe latest BIOS wants acpi_use_timer_override
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 22:36:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708032236.33241.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708031627.56585.lenb@kernel.org>


> Is it possible to open a bugzilla and drop the acpidump and dmesg
> from both the new and old BIOS in it?

My guess is that they changed some bits outside the DSDT. But ok
makes sense.
 
> Assuming the override in both cases is identical, I'm really baffled
> by this failure.  It seems that the new BIOS is playing some tricks
> that we have not seen before, as your hardware didn't change...

There is some flexibility in how the interrupt gets delivered, since it
gets converted to a HT message and the Northbridge has a few tweaks for
processing those.

-Andi


      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 18:38 Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe latest BIOS wants acpi_use_timer_override Robert Hancock
2007-08-03 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-03 20:27   ` Len Brown
2007-08-03 20:36     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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