Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:03:06 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace nvidia timer override quirk with pci id list |
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:18:52 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > Sort of coming in in the middle of this because I just realized this may have > > something to do with the "exception Emask" errors. I have an NF2, and the > > exception Emask is a SATA problem. Shouldn't be caused by timer troubles. > This means in theory it could be that your sata driver if compiled > in is the first thing to use timers, but normally if the timers are > broken you get a earlier hang somewhere else.
Badly wrong timer speed would do that, as would the timer change breaking other IRQ delivery somewhere
Alan
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