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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:12:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173075158.4158.1.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35793.86.7.220.119.1173019974.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net>

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:52 +0000, Andrew Nelless wrote:
> On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >
> > Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the
> > culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous behavior (which is
> > ignoring ACPI timer override). Open arch/x86_64/kernel/earlyquirk.c:nvidia_bugs() and change
> > this line:
> >
> > if (acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_HPET, nvidia_hpet_check)) return; into this:
> >
> > acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_HPET, nvidia_hpet_check); /* return; */
> >
> >
> > Tony
> >
> 
> This fixes the problem. After a lot of rebooting
> and testing the problem is definitely gone when this
> check is patched out and the ACPI timer override is
> ignored. It looks like there should be a cleaner
> patch than just obliterating the condition and return
> though.
> 
> Perhaps the code should remain as is and
> "acpi_use_timer_override" could be complimented
> by exposing the "acpi_skip_timer_override" option to
> the kernel command line?

acpi_skip_timer_override is still documented in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. 

Tony



      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-23 13:35 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure Andrew
2007-02-23 16:05 ` Andrew
2007-02-28  1:35   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-24 11:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-24 22:57   ` Andrew Nelless
2007-02-24 23:00   ` Andrew Nelless
2007-02-24 23:30     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-25 11:07       ` Andrew Nelless
2007-02-26 12:41         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-26 18:48           ` Andrew Nelless
2007-02-26 23:09             ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-03-04 14:52               ` Andrew Nelless
2007-03-05  6:12                 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]

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