From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 hangs during boot on ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:14:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060928131427.bc3d0ed4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451BFDC8.6030308@perkel.com>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:52:24 -0700
Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
> Ok - I don't understand why this bug is being ignored. It appears that this bug applies to many models of motherboards all using the new nVidia chipset for AM2
> socket AMD processors causing these motherboards to lock up on boot. This bug has been reported for a long time and it appears that there seems to be some
> understanding as to what the problem is. Yet no one is fixing it.
>
> So what's up with that? I know this is free software but I would think that someone would want to put out some effort to make Linux run on the AM2 systems.
> So why is this being ignored?
>
> I compiled 2.6.18 and setting acpi_skip_timer_override to 0 instead of 1 makes the problem go away. Obviously the logic needs to e a little more complex than
> is but this shouldn't be that hard to resolve.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975
>
I think the kernel _should_ be enabling acpi_skip_timer_override by itself,
but isn't doing that for some reason.
Perhaps Andy can help. He may not even be aware of this problem...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-28 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 16:52 Marc Perkel
2006-09-28 20:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-28 20:20 ` Prakash Punnoor
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