linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace nvidia timer override quirk with pci id list

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Date:	Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:59:20 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, lenb@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace nvidia timer override quirk with pci id list

> Grr, I don't know why I am discussing with stubborn and/or arrogant devs like 
> you seem to be. But I actually did what you wanted and as *expected* - as I 

Thanks.

> said I understand that trivial piece of code you posted - your patch fails 
> here for my nforce2:

That is 2.6.24 + my patch?  And system didn't boot? 

> 
> cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:        832    XT-PIC-XT        timer <---------------- seeing this?

Well it looks like it is ticking. What are the symptoms? 

Do you have a full boot log of the failure?

> 
> And no, I won't test it on my MCP51 as I *know* what happens: As soon as I 
> disable hpet, the quirk gets triggered and will lock up my system.

I readded the HPET check in v2 especially for you so if HPET is enabled
no quirk is triggered.

-Andi
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