On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:14:41AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > We just got a completely different bug reported that was confirmed to be > > caused by Andi's patch: > > AMD64/ATI : timer is running twice as fast as it should [1] > > I have such a machine that showed this problem and when I wrote the patch I > tested it on it (and on a couple of others of course). No twice as fast on > my testing. > > In fact there are two types of ATI machines: ones that have a BIOS workaround > for the original Linux issue and ones that don't. Keeping both > happy is not easy. > > So I'm somewhat dubious on that. Where is that report?
Follow the link [1] in my email (and the bug is already assigned to you). > > My whole point is that for 2.6.20, we can live with simply reverting > > Andi's commit. > > I agree. It's more problematical than I expected. Reverting is > the best option right now. > > -Andi cu Adrian [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7789 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
