From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266040AbUBQGhe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:37:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266045AbUBQGhe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:37:34 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:9193 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266040AbUBQGhd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:37:33 -0500 X-Authenticated: #5429946 From: Felix Seeger To: Len Brown Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc4 (nforce2) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:49:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: Kernel Mailing List References: <1076999506.2510.36.camel@dhcppc4> In-Reply-To: <1076999506.2510.36.camel@dhcppc4> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200402170749.48575.felix.seeger@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 February 2004 07:31, Len Brown wrote: > > Should NForce2 boards also work without patches and with acpi/apic ? > > I saw a change in rc3. > > Some will, some will not. Note that Maciej's patch didn't address the > nforce2 timer configuration issue, which I believe requires a > platform-specific nforce2 patch. > > > It just hangs again, so I switched back to my patched kernel. > > But of course this could be another problem, kernel 2.6.2-rc1 is > > running very > > stable here with the apictack-rd and the ioapic-rd patches. > > Dunno what those are, but if you still require ACPI-related patches, > please let me know. >>From the nforce2-apictack-rd-2.6.0.patch: /* + * Athlon nforce2 R.D. + * preset timer ack mode if desired + * e.g. static int apic_timerack = 2; >>From the nforce2-ioapic-rd-2.6.0.patch +#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC) + /* for nforce2 try vector 0 on pin0 + * Note 8259a is already masked, also by default + * the io_apic_set_pci_routing call disables the 8259 irq 0 + * so we must be connected directly to the 8254 timer if this works + * Note2: this violates the above comment re Subtle but works! + */ I think I will need more patches, but I will test it today. > thanks, > -Len Felix