Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH] + [PATCH] for nmi_debug=1 + [PATCH]for idle=C1halt, 2.6.5

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Ross Dickson wrote:

> We need it off for nforce2 to get nmi_watchdog=1 working with ioapic
> 8254 timer pin0  timer override patch routing. I vote to revisit Maciej's
> patch that was dropped by Linus after appearing in 2.6.3-mm3. 
> For those with problems of clock skew with the timer into pin0 routing, 
> that patch gave a virtual wire timer routing which worked well for those
> users.
> 
> It also works around problems for ibm users.
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-04/4421.html
> 
> That patch is last posted here (Maciej please correct me if i'm wrong)
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-04/3174.html

 That's my latest version, although the one in -mm had a minor readability 
improvement, so you may use that one instead.

 BTW, can you please check if the chipset fixup cures the timer IRQ line
noise?

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