Re: [PATCH] Replace nvidia timer override quirk with pci id list

From: Prakash Punnoor
Date: Sat Feb 09 2008 - 12:30:34 EST


Am Samstag 09 Februar 2008 schrieben Sie:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:51:05PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > On the day of Saturday 09 February 2008 Andi Kleen hast written:
> > > We discussed this back then with Nvidia engineers and they stated
> > > that only NF5 would need timer overrides.
> >
> > Can I get a link which verifies your statement? I provided one which kind
> > of contradicts yours.
>
> Sorry cannot supply links to them, they were private mail. For some
> reason the Nvidia people seem to be shy to post to mailing lists.

Too bad that you cannot make them publish their infos.

>
> iirc the thread which inspired this patch (together with several
> bugs in both novell and kernel.org bugzilla) was
>
> http://marc.info/?t=116175224500001&r=1&w=2

Interesting, this was where I posted, as well...

> So you have to trust me on that -- it's a bit similar to as to I have
> to trust your not yet produced boot log and test results.

And I won't, as I reverted to my stable kernel again and thus patching it
again (yes it was 2.6.24 with early-quirks.c from git and your patch on top)
doesn't give more info then I already provided. Furthermore I also told you
that because of missing nforce2 ID the practical test wasn't really
necessary.


Just add this line to your patch:

+ QBRIDGE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCE2,
nvidia_timer),


So that the quirk gets applied for nForce2, then your patch is - while still
wrong in my eyes - not a regression anymore (for me) and thus I would take
back my NAK(, but still not ACK it).

bye,
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//\ Prakash Punnoor /\\
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