Re: [ACPI] Re: PROBLEM: ACPI freezes 2.6.1 on boot

[Mikael Pettersson]

Karol Kozimor writes:
 > Thus wrote Georg C. F. Greve:
 > > So the problem we've been seeing seems to be related to the
 > > interaction between local APIC support and ACPI.
 > 
 > We've definitely had those problems before (with ASUS L3800C), there's 
 > even a patch fixing this issue (attached below) you might try.
 > I guess that's another of those lost and forgotten bugzilla bugs :)
 > 
 > -- 
 > Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
 > sziwan@xxxxxxxxxxx
 > 
 > 
 > diff -Bru linux-2.6.0-test8/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c patched/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
 > --- linux-2.6.0-test8/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c	2003-10-18 05:43:36.000000000 +0800
 > +++ patched/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c	2003-10-30 23:17:50.000000000 +0800
 > @@ -836,8 +836,8 @@
 >  {
 >  	unsigned int lvtt1_value, tmp_value;
 >  
 > -	lvtt1_value = SET_APIC_TIMER_BASE(APIC_TIMER_BASE_DIV) |
 > -			APIC_LVT_TIMER_PERIODIC | LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR;
 > +	lvtt1_value = APIC_LVT_TIMER_PERIODIC | LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR;
 > +
 >  	apic_write_around(APIC_LVTT, lvtt1_value);

What is the purpose of this change?
I don't remember seeing this before on LKML. (I don't have time to read bugzilla.)
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