Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM APIC/ACPI Bug (patched) | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:11:49 +0200 |
> The problem is this workaround doesn't fix a chipset issue, it fixes > incorrect entries in the BIOS ACPI tables. This bug existed in the > NVIDIA reference BIOS for nForce2 and got copied to all customer BIOSes > for nForce2. Even though our reference BIOSes and documentation for all > chipsets since then have the correct interrupt overrides in the ACPI > tables we still see customer BIOSes that get shipped with incorrect > entries that were probably copied from their nForce2 BIOS code.
Ah my understanding was that it applied to NF3 and possible NF4 too. Does it not?
> I believe the HPET check was because the workaround was causing problems > when enabling HPET on systems that support it. Andy probably has more > details on that.
Yes it was because NF5 needed it to be disabled. Anyways if I can get a list of PCI-IDs of chipsets where the reference BIOS had this issue it can be narrowed to those.
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