From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751468AbWCOWhE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:37:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751874AbWCOWhE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:37:04 -0500 Received: from 209-166-240-202.cust.walrus.com ([209.166.240.202]:43453 "EHLO mail1.telemetry-investments.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468AbWCOWhB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:37:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:36:56 -0500 From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeff Garzik , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Jason Baron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz Subject: Re: libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer] Message-ID: <20060315223656.GC17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Jason Baron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz References: <200602280022.40769.darkray@ic3man.com> <4408BEB5.7000407@garzik.org> <20060303234330.GA14401@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <200603040107.27639.ak@suse.de> <20060315213638.GA17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <1142459152.1671.64.camel@mindpipe> <20060315215848.GB18241@elte.hu> <441893AB.1070300@garzik.org> <20060315222441.GA24074@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060315222441.GA24074@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:24:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > well, it's a PIO inb() op i think, and could thus in theory trigger SMM > BIOS code. Is there any easy way to disable more SMM stuff than "noacpi"? If push comes to shove, I'll go all the way and just install LinuxBIOS on the damn thing. Though I'm sure that will be a chore. -Bill