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

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Message-Id: <200802091911.25730.prakash@punnoor.de>
Date:	Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:11:25 +0100
From:	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
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

On the day of Saturday 09 February 2008 Gene Heskett hast written:
> This has killed me both at boot time twice, once before NASH was running,
> and several times when uptimes were a day plus, but has never reappeared
> since the first time I used the acpi_user_timer_override argument, and this
> includes several boots without it including 2 complete, 2 or 3 minute power
> downs.

Are you saying that on your nforce2 you need the override 
(acpi_use_timer_override) to have a stable system? Because that would be in 
contrast to all previous findings regarding nforce2. Could you provide 

cat /proc/interrupts
lspci
lspci -n
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