From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263593AbTLOMtI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:49:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263598AbTLOMtI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:49:08 -0500 Received: from jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.2]:46552 "EHLO jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263593AbTLOMtG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:49:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:49:04 +0100 (CET) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: ross.alexander@uk.neceur.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 ross.alexander@uk.neceur.com wrote: > 2) If the local apic is running is it necessary to use the 8254 as a > timer? The 8254 timer is used for timekeeping -- it would be unnecessarily ugly to stuff this fuctionality to the APIC timer on one of CPUs. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +