From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751378AbWDHAZn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:25:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751379AbWDHAZn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:25:43 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:33679 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751378AbWDHAZm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:25:42 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 - detects buggy TSC on GEODE From: john stultz To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jim Cromie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060407170706.1ae11ea1.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060404014504.564bf45a.akpm@osdl.org> <4436D275.2010402@gmail.com> <20060407170706.1ae11ea1.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:25:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1144455945.16269.3.camel@leatherman> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 (2.6.0-1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jim Cromie wrote: > > as the 2 syslog extracts show; > > 1. the new kernel is now detecting the buggy TSC on the GEODE-sc1100 > > 2. the bug is apparently correctable by passing 'idle=poll' on kernel > > boot-line. > > John, does this mean that enable-tsc-for-amd-geode-gx-lx.patch is only safe > to merge after all your time-management patches have gone in? Hmmm. That would look to be the case from Jim's mail, although I'm not very familiar with the hardware in question, so I could be wrong. thanks -john