Re: 2.6.18 hangs during boot on ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard

From: Prakash Punnoor
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 16:21:00 EST


Am Donnerstag 28 September 2006 22:14 schrieb Andrew Morton:

> > 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.

Other way round. It should only enable it for broken chipsets. But it hasn't
been defined what _are_ the broken chipsets.... currently it is enabled for
all chipsets.

>
> Perhaps Andy can help. He may not even be aware of this problem...

Na, he just choses not to say anything.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115675009906807&w=2

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