Re: [ACPI] acpi problem with nforce motherboards and ethernet

Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-02-07T10:04:11Z

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Josh McKinney wrote:

> I tried the patch against 2.6.3-rc1 and it doesn't seem to fix
> anything, timer is still on XT-PIC. This is on a A7N8X Deluxe rev2,
> nforce2.

The patch fixes our bad interpretation of the ACPI spec -- it's not
sufficient to work around errors in the nforce2's ACPI tables, which
should really get fixed by the manufacturer with a BIOS update.

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