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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Pasi Savolainen <pasi.savolainen@hut.fi>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clepple@ghz.cc
Subject: Re: [PATCH] amd76x_pm on 2.6.0-test9 cleanup
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:55:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031104205547.GE1042@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031104202104.GA408936@kosh.hut.fi>

* Pasi Savolainen <pasi.savolainen@hut.fi> [031104 12:21]:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [031104 21:24]:
> > * john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> [031104 10:43]:
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:22, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > I've received some reports that this patch causes time problems.
> > > 
> > > Have those issues been looked into further, or addressed? 
> > 
> > I've heard of timing problems if it's compiled in, but supposedly they don't
> > happen when loaded as module.
> 
> Not happening since 2.6.0-test9. Don't know what really fixed it, but
> they're just not there anymore.

Weird, John, is this true on your S2460 also?

> > Then the 2.4 version does not load if i2c-amd756 is loaded, but this may
> > have been already fixed by this patch, I have not verified it yet though.
> 
> Most probably caused by the same thing that prevented it loading under
> amd_k7_agp, that is indeed sorted out.

OK

> > I have problem where my S2460 goes into sleep for a while if compiled in, 
> > but this does not happen when loaded as module.
> 
> Could you have some AMD_76X -define left over? I skimmed through MP &
> MPX AMD documents, but found nothing incriminating.
> Could it be ACPI doing it's things with S -states? (it does check for
> SMP, but does report S -states as supported). And if ACPI isn't
> enabled, could you toggle it on, or vice-versa.

Well, I think I had this problem originally in amd-smp-idle.c before there 
was any ACPI support in the module. It's probably related to some ACPI
register though.

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-04 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-04  0:22 [PATCH] amd76x_pm on 2.6.0-test9 cleanup Tony Lindgren
2003-11-04 18:41 ` john stultz
2003-11-04 19:15   ` Tony Lindgren
2003-11-04 19:44     ` Charles Lepple
2003-11-04 20:05       ` Tony Lindgren
2003-11-04 20:52         ` Charles Lepple
2003-11-04 22:38         ` Charles Lepple
2003-11-04 23:11           ` Tony Lindgren
2003-11-04 23:46             ` Pasi Savolainen
2003-11-04 20:21     ` Pasi Savolainen
2003-11-04 20:55       ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2003-11-04 20:57         ` john stultz
2003-11-04 21:14           ` Tony Lindgren
2003-11-14 11:56         ` Pasi Savolainen
2003-11-04 21:01       ` Charles Lepple
2003-11-04 21:17         ` Tony Lindgren
2003-11-05 19:42     ` Felix Maibaum

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