Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:04:58 -0600 | From | Chris Cheney <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64 VIA chipset IOAPIC fix |
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:34:34PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Hi Andi & Len, > > Sorry for cross posting all over the place, I tried to CC some people who have > been bugged by this bug. > > I finally got the IOAPIC working on my eMachines m6805 amd64 laptop with the > following patch. I have not tried it on any other machines, so can you guys > please check the sanity and make the necessary changes if needed? > > This fixes at least ACPI bug 2090: > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2090 > > Might fix some other x86 VIA bugs too?
Is this actually a "VIA" fix or a just workaround for the broken Arima bios? I noticed that the Arima bios seems to be pretty buggy in some other aspects as well.
BTW - Does this also solve the problem with needing USB to be compiled directly into the kernel in 64bit mode?
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