Re: [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirk

[Stefan Prechtel]

2007/3/21, Grzegorz Chwesewicz <grzegorz.chwesewicz@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:09:30 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote
> > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States. This is handled
> > > by the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick
> > > managment code.
> > >
> > > Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but
> > > switch into deeper C-States behind the kernels back. This delays the
> > > local apic timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable.
> > >
> > > Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi
> > > quirk for known broken systems.
>
> Confirming that my machine on 2.6-git with this patch works just like on
> 2.6.20. Great work.
>
> --
> Greetings - Grzegorz Chwesewicz

Works here too, thx ;)

Kind regards,
Stefan Prechtel
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