Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755524Ab0A1OpK (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752806Ab0A1OpJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:09 -0500 Received: from mx2.compro.net ([12.186.155.4]:25348 "EHLO mx2.compro.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755447Ab0A1OpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:08 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,359,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="4921008" Message-ID: <4B61A2F1.4090605@compro.net> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:05 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: markh@compro.net Organization: Compro Computer Svcs. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130 SUSE/3.0.0-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Andreas Herrmann , dmarkh@cfl.rr.com, Yuhong Bao , venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, Linus Torvalds , alain@knaff.lu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Disable HPET MSI on ATI SB700/SB800 References: <4B32565E.6000501@compro.net> <20091223191806.GA3336@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <4B3270FE.5090607@compro.net> <1261600243.16916.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4B476E8D.1030308@compro.net> <20100121190952.GA32523@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20100125171059.GB5041@alberich.amd.com> <4B61562C.1010103@cfl.rr.com> <4B619043.1070806@compro.net> <20100128134109.GE26322@aftab> In-Reply-To: <20100128134109.GE26322@aftab> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1675 Lines: 48 On 01/28/2010 08:41 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:25:23AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: >> On 01/28/2010 04:17 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote: >>> On 01/25/2010 12:10 PM, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:21:06PM -0800, Yuhong Bao wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> HPET MSI on platforms with ATI SB700/SB800 as they seem to have some >>>>>> side-effects on floppy DMA. Do not use HPET MSI on such platforms. >>>> >>>> Argh, will see what information I can find about this problem ... >>>> >>>>> I think somebody from AMD should review the situation.Clearly >>>> something is happening inside their southbridge.CCing Andreas >>>> Herrmann from AMD. >>>> >>>> I have the feeling that this problem should rather be fixed with a DMI >>>> quirk instead of disabling HPET MSI for the entire chipset. >>>> >>>> Was the latest available BIOS installed on the affected system? >>>> >>> >>> You mean "systems" of different manufactures? I will check today. Due to >>> mis configured filters I didn't see this until today. Sorry. >>> >>> Mark >>> >> >> My BIOS were below rev on all my affected boards but updating did not help >> with the problem. > > Hi, > > can you post the BIOS vendors of the boards along with the respective > BIOS versions? > > Thanks. > DFI DK-790FXB-M3H5 MB using AWARD bios D7SDA09.BIN (10/09/2009) BIOSTAR TA790GXB A2+ using AMI bios 78DDA928.BST (09/28/09) Regards Mark -- 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/