Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer accessbefore C3 arbiter shutdown | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:54:04 -0700 | From | "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <> |
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@linutronix.de] >Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:26 AM >To: Chris Wright >Cc: Andrew Morton; LKML; Andi Kleen; Udo A. Steinberg; >Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Dave Jones; Ingo Molnar; Arjan van de >Ven; Stable Team; Len Brown >Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and >pmtimer accessbefore C3 arbiter shutdown > >On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: >> * Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: >> > hm, this needs a bit of help to get it to work against >Len's current tree. >> >> Here's some help, compile tested only. Udo/Thomas, was this found to >> be root cause of a real bug? I didn't want this to get lost if it's >> still meant to be relevant for -stable. > >Chris, > >I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for >stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a >ICH4 system. I doubt that any of those systems has hpet enabled in the >BIOS. It should not affect later ICH chip sets. Venki, is this >correct ? >
Yes. This issue is only when HPET timer is used on ICH4. And by default HPET is not enabled on those chipsets. So, we don't need this patch for stable.
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