Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423545AbWJaQL1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:11:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423541AbWJaQL0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:11:26 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:20357 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423545AbWJaQLZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:11:25 -0500 Message-ID: <454775C6.5030604@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:11:50 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: lspci output needed was Re: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD References: <454432DC.9030006@shaw.ca> <200610311528.20013.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200610311528.20013.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1595 Lines: 52 Andi Kleen wrote: >>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.. >> >> > >My current plan is to switch in 2.6.20 to automatic probing of more pins >for the timer routing (suggested by Tim Hockin, I've got a test patch). > > Thank you, Tim! >But that's too risky for .19. > >For 2.6.19 we'll likely add some more PCI-IDs disabling the quirk >and a command line option to disable the skip timer override quirk. > > That should be safe, and timer override as an option should give everyone a way to get what they need on any given system. >Doing this per PCI ID isn't that bad because afaik Vista certification >requires enabling the HPET table and I assume most boards will get >Vista certification soon. This will force Asus to fix their BIOS. > > And nVidia to release more information? Hopefully. >Can people who use a Nvidia based AM2/SocketF board (especially when they have timer >troubles but otherwise would be useful too) please report their lspcis in private >mail to me? > >-Andi > > > > -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/