From: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 hangs during boot on ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:20:20 +0200
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       "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com>
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Am Donnerstag 28 September 2006 22:14 schrieb Andrew Morton:

> > 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=3D6975
>
> I think the kernel _should_ be enabling acpi_skip_timer_override by itsel=
f,
> but isn't doing that for some reason.

Other way round. It should only enable it for broken chipsets. But it hasn'=
t=20
been defined what _are_ the broken chipsets.... currently it is enabled for=
=20
all chipsets.

>
> Perhaps Andy can help.  He may not even be aware of this problem...

Na, he just choses not to say anything.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D115675009906807&w=3D2

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