On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:40:55PM +0000, Edward Miller wrote: > Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 > Version: 2.4.27-8 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The 2.6 kernel series has, since 2.6.5, had a fix for an erroneous timer > override present in many BIOSes in nforce[23] chipsets. The 2.4 series > is missing this, resulting in an XT_PIC timer on systems that have an > APIC-enabled kernel. This is believed to cause system instability, > including hard lock-ups (with no ssh). At my request, Zwane Mwaikambo > has kindly backported the fix for 2.4.30 and Ihave found that this patch > works almost unaltered on Debian's kernel-source-2.4.27. Bearing in mind > the proximity of Sarge's release and especially d-i rc3, I thought I > should send you the patch for review now. > > Maybe this will have to be a post-Sarge item but there is a lot of > cheap nforce2 out there and 2.6.8 may not be suitable for everyone so I > hope you can consider this patch for inclusion in Sarge's 2.4.27.
Thanks, looks good, though I think the Makefile portion of the patch should be as follows. I am in the process of some rebuilds to confirm this. I have CCed the Zwane Mwakikamo and LKML so this reaches the right eyes. -- Horms diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile --- a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile 2005-02-24 20:01:29.000000000 +0900 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile.noedit 2005-02-24 20:03:40.000000000 +0900 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPUID) += cpuid.o obj-$(CONFIG_MICROCODE) += microcode.o obj-$(CONFIG_APM) += apm.o -obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT) += acpi.o earlyquirk.o +obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT) += acpi.o obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) += acpi_wakeup.o obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += smp.o smpboot.o trampoline.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) += mpparse.o apic.o nmi.o - 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/
