Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:41:09 +0100 | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Disable HPET MSI on ATI SB700/SB800 |
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:25:23AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: > On 01/28/2010 04:17 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote: > > On 01/25/2010 12:10 PM, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:21:06PM -0800, Yuhong Bao wrote: > >>> > >>>> HPET MSI on platforms with ATI SB700/SB800 as they seem to have some > >>>> side-effects on floppy DMA. Do not use HPET MSI on such platforms. > >> > >> Argh, will see what information I can find about this problem ... > >> > >>> I think somebody from AMD should review the situation.Clearly > >> something is happening inside their southbridge.CCing Andreas > >> Herrmann from AMD. > >> > >> I have the feeling that this problem should rather be fixed with a DMI > >> quirk instead of disabling HPET MSI for the entire chipset. > >> > >> Was the latest available BIOS installed on the affected system? > >> > > > > You mean "systems" of different manufactures? I will check today. Due to > > mis configured filters I didn't see this until today. Sorry. > > > > Mark > > > > My BIOS were below rev on all my affected boards but updating did not help > with the problem.
Hi,
can you post the BIOS vendors of the boards along with the respective BIOS versions?
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
-- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating Systems Research Center
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