Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 16:13:25 EST


On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:04:27PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:45 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:40:46PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > > Some applications such as realtime audio and probably gaming require
> > > ACPI to be disabled, as it causes horrible latency problems. This
> > > applies equally to Linux and Windows.
> >
> > How, and on what hardware?
>
> Here's a case where the kernel does not see a user's sound card at all
> unless ACPI is disabled (second to last comment):

That's more likely to be an interrupt routing issue than anything
intrinsically awkward with ACPI.

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