On the day of Friday 08 February 2008 Andi Kleen hast written:
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> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:00:39PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > On the day of Friday 08 February 2008 Andi Kleen hast written:
> > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, confirmed. timer w/o the skipping stays XT-PIC on nforce2.
> > >
> > > Confirmed what? Did you test my patch on both machines?
> > > What was the result?
> >
> > I confirmed that it (nforce2) needed the acpi_skip_timer_override. If y=
ou
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> > read my mail, you knew I didn't test your patch.
>
> Ok can you please do so then?  Or stop your obstructism?

Grr, I don't know why I am discussing with stubborn and/or arrogant devs li=
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you seem to be. But I actually did what you wanted and as *expected* - as I=
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said I understand that trivial piece of code you posted - your patch fails=
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here for my nforce2:

cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:        832    XT-PIC-XT        timer <---------------- seeing this?
  1:         10   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          2   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
  9:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:         84   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 14:         38   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
 16:     184026   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth0
 17:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Technisat/B2C2 FlexCop II/IIb/III Digit=
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TV PCI Driver
 18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   NVidia nForce2
 19:      12460   IO-APIC-fasteoi   nvidia
NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:      74695   Local timer interrupts
TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0


And no, I won't test it on my MCP51 as I *know* what happens: As soon as I=
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disable hpet, the quirk gets triggered and will lock up my system.

Now stop wasting my time and do your homework!

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> Your objections don't make sense, so you can NAK all day.  You're
> talking about timer overrides in PIC mode which is just pure non sense.

Then talk to Len Brown, maybe he is able to make you understand.

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> Ok if you're unwilling to test I'm ignoring you in the future.
> Please stop sending me email.

Actually I don't care anymore. The last time you also didn't really cared f=
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what I said about your way of quirking the nforce boards.

I know how to make the kernel behave in this matter, it is just a pity for=
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other users, who don't know...

Good luck!
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