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SubjectRe: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 2.6.18 is the latest released kernel, I don't think calling one release
> back "ancient" is really advancing the solution. The problem seems to
> have been reported in August, and is still not fixed, I do understand
> that he would feel there is no progress.
>
> How long will you wait before putting in the fix Marc Perkel suggested,
> perhaps with a warning logged that it's a band-aid? Many users will not
> be astute enough to find this discussion, the bug report, the fix,
> configure and build a kernel, etc. And not all distributions will
> address it either.

As far as the "fix" of disabling the skip-ACPI-timer-override, that is
not something that can be put in the kernel as it will break other
boards that require the ACPI timer override not to be used (like many
nForce2 boards for example). Breaking working setups in order to fix
others isn't acceptable.

There are clearly some NVIDIA chipsets which require the override be
skipped, and some which require it not be. I think the ball is currently
in NVIDIA's court to provide a way of figuring out which chipsets
require the quirk and which don't..

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