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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:21:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228152124.616e6c1c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602281619_MC3-1-B984-ED75@compuserve.com>

Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> Disable timer routing over 8254 when an ATI chipset is detected
>  (autodetect is only implemented for ACPI, but these are new systems
>  and should be using ACPI anyway.)  Adds boot options for manually
>  disabling and enabling this feature. Also adds a note to the timer
>  error message caused by this change explaining that this error
>  is expected on ATI chipsets.

umm, why did you write this patch?  Presumably it's fixing something, but
what?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 21:17 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-28 23:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-01 13:59 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-03-01  0:03 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-01  0:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 10:40   ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 10:52     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 11:07       ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01  1:18 Parag Warudkar
2006-03-01  2:22 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-01 15:50 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-01 17:10 Chuck Ebbert

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