Re: [patch] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386

[Chuck Ebbert]

In-Reply-To: <20060228152124.616e6c1c.akpm@xxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:21:24, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Disable timer routing over 8254 when an ATI chipset is detected
> >  (autodetect is only implemented for ACPI, but these are new systems
> >  and should be using ACPI anyway.)  Adds boot options for manually
> >  disabling and enabling this feature. Also adds a note to the timer
> >  error message caused by this change explaining that this error
> >  is expected on ATI chipsets.
> 
> umm, why did you write this patch?  Presumably it's fixing something, but
> what?

Oops...  I'm here in the middle of the forest and all I can see are trees.

This fixes the "timer runs too fast" bug on ATI chipsets (bugzilla #3927).


-- 
Chuck
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