Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030470AbVLHGQz (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:16:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030471AbVLHGQz (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:16:55 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56493 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030470AbVLHGQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:16:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:16:48 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ren? Rebe Cc: Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Test patch for ATI/Nvidia timer problems Message-ID: <20051208061648.GI11190@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051126142030.GA26449@wotan.suse.de> <200511271502.18782.rene@exactcode.de> <20051127141155.GI20775@brahms.suse.de> <200512051614.52620.rene@exactcode.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512051614.52620.rene@exactcode.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 34 On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:14:48PM +0100, Ren? Rebe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:11, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > But it worked properly before suspend/resume without noapic? > > > > > > Without noapic the timer has about the 2x speed compared to real-time. I > > > only used the machien with noapic since otherwise it is barely useful. > > > > It has that still with the patch applied? The patch was supposed > > to fix that at least part of that problem on ATI systems > > (there seems to be also a timer miscalibration problem on some other > > laptops) > > Sorry for the late reply, just too much to do ... It appears my MSI Megabook > S270 with Ati chipset and AMD Turion freezes on boot with your patch applied > to 2.6.14.2 after the io schedulers are registered. Without the patch it boots > up fine. Ok thanks. Does it work when booted with acpi_skip_timer_override ? I sometimes wish this ATI chipset wouldn't exist - its timers are an endless headache. Admittedly the Linux code for this is somewhat screwy too, but their hardware also doesn't seem to be quite kosher. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/