Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH] | From | Len Brown <> | Date | 15 Apr 2004 15:50:25 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:33, Allen Martin wrote:
> It was a bug in our original nForce reference BIOS that we gave out to vendors. Since then we fixed the reference BIOS, but since it was after products shipped, most of the motherboard vendors won't pick up the change unless they get complaints from customers. > > We've fixed it for our reference BIOS for future products though.
Great!
Knowing this makes the path clear. As we expected, an automatic workaround based on chip-set would fail because some BIOS's are fixed and some are not. So we either leave the workaround as manual bootparam or try to enumerate all BIOS versions with the bug in dmi_scan. I'm content to do the former. If distros have trouble supporting nforce2 systems, they may want to add to the later.
thanks, -Len
ps. I'm also excited to see a linux-nforce-bugs@exchange.nvidia.com alias on your note. Perhaps you can explain how we should use it. Should this alias be included on discussions of the more important issue -- the system hang that seems to be related to HALT in idle/C1?
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