From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Kr=F6ner?= 
	<christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:09:40 +0200
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Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, ross@datscreative.com.au,
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On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:17, Len Brown wrote:
>  I'm okay putting the bootparam and the workaround into the kernel,
>  for it is generic and we may find other platforms need it.

Thats more than what I could have expected, thanks.


Ross, I tested my kernel with nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2 getting only 2 
to work.

output: nmi_watchdog=1

activating NMI Watchdog ... done.
testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck!


output: nmi_watchdog=2

testing NMI watchdog ... OK.


This is on 2.6.5-mm5-1.

Concerning the timer, well I tested it against my radio-controlled clock, 
setting it with ntpdate first and letting the system run (with ntpd off) and 
my system is kinda faster than my radio-clock. After about one hour my system 
was off by +14s compared to the radio-clock. I don't know if that is pretty 
shitty or simply normal for these bad pc-clocks...

I'm now compiling 2.6.6-rc1 with the nmi_watchdog=1 workaround. One question 
about the C1idle-patch, does this add a new feature or is it just a 
workaround for locked up nforce2-systems (since I never experienced lockups 
on my system, I wouldn't need it then)?

thanks for now, christian.
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