Messages in this thread | | | From | Prakash Punnoor <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc5 | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:24:47 +0200 |
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Am Montag 28 August 2006 08:13 schrieb Andi Kleen: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:52:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > You might want to look at this bug. > > > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975 > > > > > > The current kernel doesn't run on Asus Motherboards that use the new > > > AM2 CPUs. > > That sounds like a overly broad statement. How do you know > it affects all Asus boards and not just your specific BIO version? > > > > Should this be addressed before 2.6.18 is finished? > > > > Hmm. Can you verify that the system boots fine if you get rid of > > acpi_skip_timer_override as per the hint from Prakash Punnoor? > > We already should disable it on NF5 automatically. Timer override was all > broken on NF3/NF4, but apparently works on NF5 again. > > But the check relies on HPET being present. Maybe Asus "forgot" > to set up the HPET table again and the test fails.
At least my dmesg says nothing about hpet and thus wan't to enable the quirk. It is a nforce430 (thus nf4) chipset, though. You can find my bootlog here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115545986619977&w=2
Cheers, -- (°= =°) //\ Prakash Punnoor /\\ V_/ \_V [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |