Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:14:27 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 hangs during boot on ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:52:24 -0700 Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
> Ok - I don't understand why this bug is being ignored. It appears that this bug applies to many models of motherboards all using the new nVidia chipset for AM2 > socket AMD processors causing these motherboards to lock up on boot. This bug has been reported for a long time and it appears that there seems to be some > understanding as to what the problem is. Yet no one is fixing it. > > So what's up with that? I know this is free software but I would think that someone would want to put out some effort to make Linux run on the AM2 systems. > So why is this being ignored? > > I compiled 2.6.18 and setting acpi_skip_timer_override to 0 instead of 1 makes the problem go away. Obviously the logic needs to e a little more complex than > is but this shouldn't be that hard to resolve. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975 >
I think the kernel _should_ be enabling acpi_skip_timer_override by itself, but isn't doing that for some reason.
Perhaps Andy can help. He may not even be aware of this problem... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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