On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:52 +0000, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > > Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the > > culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous > > behavior (which is > > ignoring ACPI timer override). Open > > arch/x86_64/kernel/earlyquirk.c:nvidia_bugs() and change > > this line: > > > > if (acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_HPET, nvidia_hpet_check)) return; into this: > > > > acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_HPET, nvidia_hpet_check); /* return; */ > > > > > > Tony > > > > This fixes the problem. After a lot of rebooting > and testing the problem is definitely gone when this > check is patched out and the ACPI timer override is > ignored. It looks like there should be a cleaner > patch than just obliterating the condition and return > though. > > Perhaps the code should remain as is and > "acpi_use_timer_override" could be complimented > by exposing the "acpi_skip_timer_override" option to > the kernel command line?
acpi_skip_timer_override is still documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
