Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965003AbWJ2EuJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:50:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965004AbWJ2EuJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:50:09 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:60012 "EHLO pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965003AbWJ2EuH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:50:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:49:32 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD In-reply-to: To: Bill Davidsen , linux-kernel Cc: Andi Kleen Message-id: <454432DC.9030006@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1540 Lines: 33 Bill Davidsen wrote: > 2.6.18 is the latest released kernel, I don't think calling one release > back "ancient" is really advancing the solution. The problem seems to > have been reported in August, and is still not fixed, I do understand > that he would feel there is no progress. > > How long will you wait before putting in the fix Marc Perkel suggested, > perhaps with a warning logged that it's a band-aid? Many users will not > be astute enough to find this discussion, the bug report, the fix, > configure and build a kernel, etc. And not all distributions will > address it either. As far as the "fix" of disabling the skip-ACPI-timer-override, that is not something that can be put in the kernel as it will break other boards that require the ACPI timer override not to be used (like many nForce2 boards for example). Breaking working setups in order to fix others isn't acceptable. There are clearly some NVIDIA chipsets which require the override be skipped, and some which require it not be. I think the ball is currently in NVIDIA's court to provide a way of figuring out which chipsets require the quirk and which don't.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/