Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, 27 of June 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > Well, actually, I'm not sure that will work.  I have only found
> > acpi_skip_timer_override being set to 1 in two places, but it doesn't seem to
> > be read anywhere.  What am I missing?
> 
>  I believe I removed all the occurences.  I am waiting for a proposal of a
> quirk based on the DSDT ID -- my time is a bit too limited to study the
> internals of our ACPI code at the moment; sorry about that.  I will
> complement it with a change to remove IRQ0 from I/O APIC tables as
> promised then; this piece of code I am quite familiar with.

Well, why don't we use the DMI identification as suggested by Matthew?

I think we can safely assume that all of these boxes are broken for now and we
can use a more fine grained identification in the future, if necessary.

Thanks,
Rafael
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