Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161107AbWI1UOk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161142AbWI1UOk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:14:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60583 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161107AbWI1UOj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:14:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:14:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Marc Perkel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andy Currid" Subject: Re: 2.6.18 hangs during boot on ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard Message-Id: <20060928131427.bc3d0ed4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <451BFDC8.6030308@perkel.com> References: <451BFDC8.6030308@perkel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 25 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:52:24 -0700 Marc Perkel wrote: > Ok - I don't understand why this bug is being ignored. It appears that this bug applies to many models of motherboards all using the new nVidia chipset for AM2 > socket AMD processors causing these motherboards to lock up on boot. This bug has been reported for a long time and it appears that there seems to be some > understanding as to what the problem is. Yet no one is fixing it. > > So what's up with that? I know this is free software but I would think that someone would want to put out some effort to make Linux run on the AM2 systems. > So why is this being ignored? > > I compiled 2.6.18 and setting acpi_skip_timer_override to 0 instead of 1 makes the problem go away. Obviously the logic needs to e a little more complex than > is but this shouldn't be that hard to resolve. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975 > I think the kernel _should_ be enabling acpi_skip_timer_override by itself, but isn't doing that for some reason. Perhaps Andy can help. He may not even be aware of this problem... - 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/